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===Topic: ''No One Is Denied''===
===Group: [[Rio Rancho TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Merium]]===
===TR: [[Gerdean]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Music: "The Holy City" [sung A Capella by Carl, back-up by Dorenda.] Adolph Adams
When as night as I lay sleeping I dreamed a dream so fair I stood in old Jerusalem beside the temple there I heard the children singing and ever as they sang Me thought the voice of angels from heav'n in answer rang Me thought the voice of angels from heav'n in answer rant.
When as night as I lay sleeping I dreamed a dream so fair I stood in old Jerusalem beside the temple there I heard the children singing and ever as they sang Me thought the voice of angels from heav'n in answer rang Me thought the voice of angels from heav'n in answer rant.
Chorus: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your voice and sing! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna, to your King.
Chorus: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your voice and sing! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna, to your King.
And then me thought the scene was changed New earth there seemed to be I saw the Holy City Beside the tideless sea The light of God was on its street The gates were open wide And all who would might enter And no one is denied.
And then me thought the scene was changed New earth there seemed to be I saw the Holy City Beside the tideless sea The light of God was on its street The gates were open wide And all who would might enter And no one is denied.
No need of stars to shine at night No sun to shine by day It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away
No need of stars to shine at night No sun to shine by day It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your voice and sing! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna to your King! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna to your King!
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your voice and sing! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna to your King! Hosanna, in the highest. Hosanna to your King!
MERIUM:
MERIUM: I am Merium. Group: Hi, Merium.
I am Merium. Group: Hi, Merium.
MERIUM: I am impressed. I am humbled and enthralled by your performance. What a wonderful presentation of the Lord! Isn't it amazing what is possible when your heart is in it? Even the work of the realm, the medial jobs that people have to go to, are made more, embellished, if it is done for God, in that same earnest intensity as is in the song you sang. We are enthused to prayer when we see this attitude take place. For indeed it is a prayer, this diligent application of the self to the life you live. So many people just go through the motions of living, and operate as if from a checklist and overlook the art of living and the enthralling task of cultivating morontia reality in your own environment.
===Lesson===
Yes, feng shui is a good start along those lines. I have observed that many of these toys and tools of the trade are effective and do serve until the spirit gains the upper hand completely and then the regimen, the habit, the scaffolding upon which the reality was grown is no longer needed, and yet what fun it is to see you each at your own level of soul growth and spirit development, to see how eagerly you invest yourself in what it is you love … what it is you think you love.
Yes, feng shui is a good start along those lines. I have observed that many of these toys and tools of the trade are effective and do serve until the spirit gains the upper hand completely and then the regimen, the habit, the scaffolding upon which the reality was grown is no longer needed, and yet what fun it is to see you each at your own level of soul growth and spirit development, to see how eagerly you invest yourself in what it is you love … what it is you think you love.
I don't have a lecture today. I don't have anything on the agenda. It is early spring. Everything is in readiness, and yet we are in no hurry. "T'was early in the month of May …."
I don't have a lecture today. I don't have anything on the agenda. It is early spring. Everything is in readiness, and yet we are in no hurry. "T'was early in the month of May …."
===Dialogue===
Renault: Can we ask you questions, then, Merium? MERIUM: I'd be delighted, yes. Renault: Well, one is … maybe I should-- MERIUM: Don't edit yourself like that! Just spit it out.
Renault:
Renault: I was wondering about the Adam and Eve default, and if the other planets in quarantine that received Adams and Eves (as I'm sure they did), and how long if at all it took them to break down and lose track of their mission scope and perhaps default. Or are our Adam and Eve the only ones? Or can you expound on that at all?
I was wondering about the Adam and Eve default, and if the other planets in quarantine that received Adams and Eves (as I'm sure they did), and how long if at all it took them to break down and lose track of their mission scope and perhaps default. Or are our Adam and Eve the only ones? Or can you expound on that at all?
MERIUM: Well, I see what you mean that you don't know where to start because you asked about 20 questions there.
I was just wondering.
Renault: I was just wondering.
MERIUM:
MERIUM: Our Adam and Eve -- that is to say, the Adam and Eve who served on this world -- had problems that no other Material Son and Daughter ever faced before because of the nature of the Rebellion. What makes yours different from the others is that the other 35 worlds participating in the rebellion where not at the same juncture as you were here. Adam and Eve thus had more unique problems on your world than on the others. I will try to explain it this way.
Our Adam and Eve -- that is to say, the Adam and Eve who served on this world -- had problems that no other Material Son and Daughter ever faced before because of the nature of the Rebellion. What makes yours different from the others is that the other 35 worlds participating in the rebellion where not at the same juncture as you were here. Adam and Eve thus had more unique problems on your world than on the others. I will try to explain it this way.
In terms of divorce in mortal families, children are always effected, but there is a certain phase of their development that such upheaval would be more devastating than others. Little ones, it is said, forget, and so they adapt much more readily. And after a certain point the personality is sufficiently established that they can adjust. But that mid-realm there, which is quite vulnerable, is where your planet lay.
In terms of divorce in mortal families, children are always effected, but there is a certain phase of their development that such upheaval would be more devastating than others. Little ones, it is said, forget, and so they adapt much more readily. And after a certain point the personality is sufficiently established that they can adjust. But that mid-realm there, which is quite vulnerable, is where your planet lay.
What did you ask me about Adam and Eve? Several things. What have I overlooked? Or have I put you all to sleep?
What did you ask me about Adam and Eve? Several things. What have I overlooked? Or have I put you all to sleep?
Renault:
Renault: I was thinking that it only took a hundred years for the default, you know, for them to get off track, and how much of the bio plasm did not get passed on to future generations. And the results are arthritis and other-- cerebral palsy and things that afflict the human species that might have been diverted. You know. We might be a healthier species had they had a little longer to proceed.
I was thinking that it only took a hundred years for the default, you know, for them to get off track, and how much of the bio plasm did not get passed on to future generations. And the results are arthritis and other-- cerebral palsy and things that afflict the human species that might have been diverted. You know. We might be a healthier species had they had a little longer to proceed.
And I was wondering, if perhaps the other worlds were more advanced in light and life prior to their quarantine, and ours happened so early in our development, it's almost like we never even had a chance. We were doomed from the beginning, almost. Not doomed forever necessarily, but a long, long time. The other planets … were they more advanced in human developments … in light and life?
And I was wondering, if perhaps the other worlds were more advanced in light and life prior to their quarantine, and ours happened so early in our development, it's almost like we never even had a chance. We were doomed from the beginning, almost. Not doomed forever necessarily, but a long, long time. The other planets … were they more advanced in human developments … in light and life?
MERIUM:
MERIUM: Not necessarily. Like I said, some may have been younger, some may have been older. It was the peculiar circumstances of your world that beat them. Yet they [Adam and Eve] did not embrace evil on purpose.
Renault: No, no! Just misled. Off down the wrong path.
MERIUM: They made a few wrong choices but they did not set out to do evil, and even now, today, they serve on the Council of 24 in Jerusem -- the New Jerusalem.
Renault: Is there a way to help correct our bio plasm? Our DNA? To help the human species on this planet not be as disease-ridden and crippled and …?
MERIUM:
MERIUM: The pattern has been implanted in you and so there is a possibility that over many thousands of years your DNA can be up-stepped, modified, corrected, improved, as long as it falls within the prescribed pattern that was planted in you by the Life Carriers. It is probably more important for you to focus on the social aspects of the default than the scientific, although it is certainly appropriate for scientists to investigate these solutions.
The pattern has been implanted in you and so there is a possibility that over many thousands of years your DNA can be up-stepped, modified, corrected, improved, as long as it falls within the prescribed pattern that was planted in you by the Life Carriers. It is probably more important for you to focus on the social aspects of the default than the scientific, although it is certainly appropriate for scientists to investigate these solutions.
Stopping the downhill spiral of inferior breeding would help a lot, too. That is something you can work on as well. You are an organism, after all, and like an organism that has had a disease, once the disease is cut out the healing process can begin, but whether or not it can fully recover is a mystery. Whether or not you regain all that was lost does not mean you cannot learn methods and means of compensating.
Stopping the downhill spiral of inferior breeding would help a lot, too. That is something you can work on as well. You are an organism, after all, and like an organism that has had a disease, once the disease is cut out the healing process can begin, but whether or not it can fully recover is a mystery. Whether or not you regain all that was lost does not mean you cannot learn methods and means of compensating.
They will not be sending another Adam and Eve because they came to up-step the life plasm and they defaulted. So you can't get another, but you can see what the ideal is that they wanted to implant and you can rise to the challenge of being their loyal children, like many who experienced divorce and who, even without divorce, cannot understand their parents until they themselves are parents, or until late in life when perspective changes such that they can see farther.
They will not be sending another Adam and Eve because they came to up-step the life plasm and they defaulted. So you can't get another, but you can see what the ideal is that they wanted to implant and you can rise to the challenge of being their loyal children, like many who experienced divorce and who, even without divorce, cannot understand their parents until they themselves are parents, or until late in life when perspective changes such that they can see farther.
Elena:
Elena: Well, I'm kind of curious. We've also been told that when we go from this world to the next one, that what we haven't learned in this world then we get other opportunities so I guess, put in that context, am I understanding that right? What we don't achieve in this world then we certainly have the opportunity and are given the guidance still in the next one, to achieve what we haven't in this one? Is that right?
MERIUM: Yes, you can, but it will be personal. There is much that you can do here, while you are here, that will socially improve the world. The midwayers would certainly support any efforts that you could generate to help evolve the planet as well as yourself. If you have great ideas and ambitions for this world, yes you will still likely be able to do them in the morontia life, although many things will not be interesting there that are here.
MERIUM:
Yes, you can, but it will be personal. There is much that you can do here, while you are here, that will socially improve the world. The midwayers would certainly support any efforts that you could generate to help evolve the planet as well as yourself. If you have great ideas and ambitions for this world, yes you will still likely be able to do them in the morontia life, although many things will not be interesting there that are here.
Still, if you want to serve in civil service, you will find ways to serve On High as you would here, but you may not necessarily have the option of running for Mayor.
Still, if you want to serve in civil service, you will find ways to serve On High as you would here, but you may not necessarily have the option of running for Mayor.
Elena:
Elena: Well, you know, speaking for myself, I do get really discouraged here, about a lot of the things that are here. I mean, that doesn't mean that I don't keep trying to do what I can, and I certainly continue to start doing things; I'm not lacking in enthusiasm there. But I guess it does hold some comfort for me to know that what I don't achieve here, it is certainly possible in the next one, so I don't know. I look forward to accomplishing what I can in this world, but I also am enthusiastic about what it would be next, I guess is what I am trying to say, because, Merium, you mentioned the people who happened to have the experience of being a parent, or this or that or the other, that you'll have opportunities in the next world to get that which you don't get in this world.
Well, you know, speaking for myself, I do get really discouraged here, about a lot of the things that are here. I mean, that doesn't mean that I don't keep trying to do what I can, and I certainly continue to start doing things; I'm not lacking in enthusiasm there. But I guess it does hold some comfort for me to know that what I don't achieve here, it is certainly possible in the next one, so I don't know. I look forward to accomplishing what I can in this world, but I also am enthusiastic about what it would be next, I guess is what I am trying to say, because, Merium, you mentioned the people who happened to have the experience of being a parent, or this or that or the other, that you'll have opportunities in the next world to get that which you don't get in this world.
Yes. There is some strange phase of human development that loves to be scared.
MERIUM: Yes, of course. Yes, you are right. Opportunities abound, and many of the opportunities of Mansonia are remedial opportunities, such as making up for what you didn't get here. But there are other things you can learn in Mansonia -- in the mansion worlds -- that are new, like the universal language. There is no point in learning it here. It's just one big unfolding adventure, one vast school.
Esmeralda: It sounds exciting.
MERIUM: Well, it really is very satisfying. It can be exciting, but exciting is not as important to me as it is perhaps to your mortals.
Esmeralda: I think your saying "satisfying" was a better choice of words than exciting.
MERIUM: It is for me.
Esmeralda: I think for me, too. I'm not always pulling up the right world.
MERIUM: Sometimes mortals confuse excitement with fright. There's a fine line between excitement and fear.
Renault:
Renault: The roller coaster has a certain amount of excitement and fear to it.
MERIUM: Yes. There is some strange phase of human development that loves to be scared.
Renault: Um-hum. That's why Steven King is so popular.
MERIUM: Indeed.
Elena: Well, we're not going to be bored, I don't believe, are we?
Renault: Or scared?
MERIUM:
MERIUM: I think not. You won't be bored. There is no reason to be bored, put it that way. Or scared. You wanted to know more about what to anticipate in Mansonia?
Renault: Sure.
MERIUM: And you wanted to know what it was like on worlds where other Adams and Eves defaulted.
Right, and there are 36?
Elena: Right, and there are 36?
Renault:
Renault: There's quite a few.
MERIUM: I see a lot of looking for other perspectives, looking for ways to learn more about what the options might be, some comparative analysis.
Elena: Have you been through them all?
I see a lot of looking for other perspectives, looking for ways to learn more about what the options might be, some comparative analysis.
MERIUM: I have been through the mansion worlds, yes. I think that's remarkable for an 18-year old babysitter, don't you?
Group: (Laughter) You get around! All seven of them? Well, babysitters are in big demand, I take it then, huh?
MERIUM: Indeed, on a world such as this. You all need to be observed and cultivated, nourished and coddled, and disciplined and attended to.
Paula: You know, I've always wondered whoever thought up the original idea of an Adam and Eve in a Garden of Eden. It's a beautiful story! But of course we have no idea whether there was ever such a place or people. It was a story that they started so that people would try to do good instead of evil, and if they didn't tow to the line and obey everything, then they'd get kicked out of Eden just like Adam and Eve did. Well, we have to tell stories like that to our children just to get them to learn how to behave and tow the line and do what they're supposed to do, and I don't think anybody figures you're supposed to take it literally and figure that there really was an Adam and an Eve and a Garden of Eden. You just don't --
Paula:
You know, I've always wondered whoever thought up the original idea of an Adam and Eve in a Garden of Eden. It's a beautiful story! But of course we have no idea whether there was ever such a place or people. It was a story that they started so that people would try to do good instead of evil, and if they didn't tow to the line and obey everything, then they'd get kicked out of Eden just like Adam and Eve did. Well, we have to tell stories like that to our children just to get them to learn how to behave and tow the line and do what they're supposed to do, and I don't think anybody figures you're supposed to take it literally and figure that there really was an Adam and an Eve and a Garden of Eden. You just don't --
All the different cultures had to have something like that, that they believed in, and I go to church and I believe that the Bible is a pretty accurate history of the things that went on and the wars that were fought and who was supposed to do the right thing and if you didn't do the right thing you really got punished, but that is what we taught our children. Behave and if you don't behave, Daddy will take you over his knee and give you a good spanking. And out you go. You're dumped out of Eden. And that was, I'm sure, what they were trying to do years ago when they first wrote the Bible. You weren't supposed to take everything in it literally, word for word.
All the different cultures had to have something like that, that they believed in, and I go to church and I believe that the Bible is a pretty accurate history of the things that went on and the wars that were fought and who was supposed to do the right thing and if you didn't do the right thing you really got punished, but that is what we taught our children. Behave and if you don't behave, Daddy will take you over his knee and give you a good spanking. And out you go. You're dumped out of Eden. And that was, I'm sure, what they were trying to do years ago when they first wrote the Bible. You weren't supposed to take everything in it literally, word for word.
It's just general idea. Some people, like my Grandmother, took every single thing in the Bible and said, "This is it! It happened exactly the way it tells you." And, of course, everybody knows that history has a lot of mistakes in it. I mean, it wasn't written down for people in those days. It was word of mouth, and you know what that means. That some of it is going to get mixed up and tangled, but the general idea behind it is try and tow the line and do things right and everything will turn out just fine. And if you don't, you'll probably get punished for it.
It's just general idea. Some people, like my Grandmother, took every single thing in the Bible and said, "This is it! It happened exactly the way it tells you." And, of course, everybody knows that history has a lot of mistakes in it. I mean, it wasn't written down for people in those days. It was word of mouth, and you know what that means. That some of it is going to get mixed up and tangled, but the general idea behind it is try and tow the line and do things right and everything will turn out just fine. And if you don't, you'll probably get punished for it.
MERIUM:
MERIUM: And another thing! They always blame it on Eve. I think that is unfair, don't you?
Paula: Yeah, I always thought so too.
MERIUM: Well, it's good to see women rise up and become self-aware and stand behind one another, but it's also true what you say that many stories have been handed down for centuries. This reflects in stories about the way they did it then as if it should still be done that way today. Earlier, Renault was telling Gerdean a story. Do your recall the story Renault?
Renault: About tying up the cat?
MERIUM:
MERIUM: Yes. Tying up the cat devolved similar to the story about why they always cut off the end of the loin before it was roasted. Come to find out, great grandmother's pan was short, and so they cut off the loin back then, and the daughter did the same because "that's how Mom did it" and 500 years later they are still cutting off the end of the loin, because that's the way it's always been done, just as they are still tying up the cat.
Yes. Tying up the cat devolved similar to the story about why they always cut off the end of the loin before it was roasted. Come to find out, great grandmother's pan was short, and so they cut off the loin back then, and the daughter did the same because "that's how Mom did it" and 500 years later they are still cutting off the end of the loin, because that's the way it's always been done, just as they are still tying up the cat.
Well, this is the way it has been with Bible stories, you are absolutely right. And you are right, too, that there are those who believe it to be the gospel and God's truth and make life insufferable for those who have a different opinion. This is the root of the Crusades, actually, because it becomes a sticking point of one interpretation of God versus another interpretation of God and so the battle is on. This is the way it is, though, in evolved religion.
Well, this is the way it has been with Bible stories, you are absolutely right. And you are right, too, that there are those who believe it to be the gospel and God's truth and make life insufferable for those who have a different opinion. This is the root of the Crusades, actually, because it becomes a sticking point of one interpretation of God versus another interpretation of God and so the battle is on. This is the way it is, though, in evolved religion.
Have we covered enough for one afternoon or do you want to go one more round?
Have we covered enough for one afternoon or do you want to go one more round?
Renault:
Renault: Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
I think that's some good stuff there. It's certainly given me something to think about. Really, it gives me perspective about accomplishing what we can. This is probably an understatement, but those things that were meaningful to me today were the importance of striving in this world to not only serve others but get as much as we can from this world so it will put us in a better place for the next one. And that there is a lot of variety, certainly, of things to do in the next world.
Elena: I think that's some good stuff there. It's certainly given me something to think about. Really, it gives me perspective about accomplishing what we can. This is probably an understatement, but those things that were meaningful to me today were the importance of striving in this world to not only serve others but get as much as we can from this world so it will put us in a better place for the next one. And that there is a lot of variety, certainly, of things to do in the next world.
I got a good review, actually, about the Adam and Eve story and how that happened, about the plasm part. I had read that, but I hadn't picked up on that, so that was very interesting to me, too. I'm going to try to ask Gerdean what's in her upper filing cabinet. That kind of intrigued me, too, so it's been good.
I got a good review, actually, about the Adam and Eve story and how that happened, about the plasm part. I had read that, but I hadn't picked up on that, so that was very interesting to me, too. I'm going to try to ask Gerdean what's in her upper filing cabinet. That kind of intrigued me, too, so it's been good.
Esmeralda:
Esmeralda: It's been a good lesson.
It's been a good lesson.
MERIUM:
MERIUM: I'll just see if I can't cram in one more final thought then that might help tie together my little lecture to Paula with your question about what lies ahead, and that would be to elucidate that although you are just now approaching the fifth epoch, and you have the sixth and seventh phases on your world before it is settled in light and life, and before it reaches the fruition of its potential.
I'll just see if I can't cram in one more final thought then that might help tie together my little lecture to Paula with your question about what lies ahead, and that would be to elucidate that although you are just now approaching the fifth epoch, and you have the sixth and seventh phases on your world before it is settled in light and life, and before it reaches the fruition of its potential.
As I review the experience of the morontia worlds and attaining Jerusem citizenship, I oversee and wonder about and anticipate for you, the many things that you are learning now that are first mansion world and second mansion world realities that will increase as you pursue, advance and aspire and as time goes by, such that mortals will be able to learn here what they would learn on the fourth or fifth mansion world, and even at the height of your planetary development when everyone loves God and seeks to serve.
As I review the experience of the morontia worlds and attaining Jerusem citizenship, I oversee and wonder about and anticipate for you, the many things that you are learning now that are first mansion world and second mansion world realities that will increase as you pursue, advance and aspire and as time goes by, such that mortals will be able to learn here what they would learn on the fourth or fifth mansion world, and even at the height of your planetary development when everyone loves God and seeks to serve.
And so, as you tell tales of what went down, you can also look to anticipate what is yet to come. And even in the talking of it and the dreaming of it and the fantasizing about it, the real thrill, the real miracle, the real joy is the doing of it. The giving of yourself to the moment in sublime peace and trust of your doing it with and for the Lord, for truth, beauty and goodness. Doing it for love. And none will be denied. Bye bye!
And so, as you tell tales of what went down, you can also look to anticipate what is yet to come. And even in the talking of it and the dreaming of it and the fantasizing about it, the real thrill, the real miracle, the real joy is the doing of it. The giving of yourself to the moment in sublime peace and trust of your doing it with and for the Lord, for truth, beauty and goodness. Doing it for love. And none will be denied. Bye bye!
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