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MEETING WITH ABRAHAM & EMULAN
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OUR CREATOR'S URANTIAN BIRTH
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==Heading==
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===Topic: ''Personality''===
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===Group: [[Woods Cross TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Abraham]], [[Athena]]===
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===TR: [[Nina]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
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I am ABRAHAM. Greetings to you, friends. I surely am filled with new [[energy]] when we can meet. The [[serene]] atmosphere we have this evening enables us to be [[clear]] in our [[thinking]] and [[receptive]] to new [[ideas]]. I would like to [[express]] my [[gratitude]] to you each here tonight for your [[faith]] in me as your teacher and friend. Our continuing growing, evolving [[association]] brings the divine world before our faces.
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AUGUST 21, 2000
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This evening I would like to introduce a teacher new to this group. I find her particular [[personality]] to provide us with a more [[balanced]] [[understanding]] in regard to [[emotions]] and [[behaviors]] from a [[mortal]] [[perspective]].
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===='''''[[Balance]]''''', '''''[[Personality]]'''''====
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I am ATHENA. I thank you for allowing me to speak. I am always finding my interests to be [[growing]] and changing. I always [[love]] meeting new [[beings]] no matter where they are from. I have always found the human mind, [[personality]] and [[behaviors]] to be interesting because there is so many possibilities and [[potentials]] to be had. There are so many varying personalities in the human [[species]], let alone the whole of [[the universe]].
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WOODS CROSS GROUP
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We have individuals who are [[aggressive]] and seize life with both hands. We all know [[mortals]] who are [[passive]] and sometimes become overwhelmed by [[life]] circumstances. Some of you are somewhere in the middle and [[experience]] both ends of the [[spectrum]]. We all know individuals who have a constant need for extra [[energy]] and those who are a continuous supplier of energy.
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I am ABRAHAM. Greetings to you, my friends. I count myself blessed to learn so much from your discussions. I am touched by your sincerity and willingness to be honest with yourselves, as well as one another. It is a true show of courage when you can admit your shortcomings and a request to Father for help when you desire to become better. I am happy to give you to EMULAN.
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Each [[personality]] will handle their [[emotions]] and [[behaviors]] differently and there is a call for individuals to be mediators and equalizers or bringers of [[balance]], if you will. We are finding your [[training]] to be helpful in bringing balance among your fellows. Our [[purpose]] is not about any one [[individual]], but about the well-being of [[the whole]].
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I do so admire [[Michael]] for His [[balanced]] [[personality]]. He was both a Father and a Mother combination to those that were fortunate to know Him. He was [[gentle]] with individuals that would [[receive]] Him as gentle. He was [[aggressive]] with individuals that would receive Him as aggressive. He had balance in [[mind]], [[personality]] and His [[behaviors]] [[reflected]] that. He lived a perfect diet for life: [[Prayer]], [[contemplation]] and a continued [[focus]] on Father provided Him with the spiritual nutrients He needed to have such [[balance]].
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Greetings friends. I do also enjoy these lessons along with you. I see where I have need for improvement and I feel relief at those things I have overcome. On this appropriate day of celebration for our Creator's Urantian birth I should like to say a few words.
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He was not about [[male]] nor [[female]], [[rich]] or [[poor]], free nor bond. He was about being that true [[essence]] He was assigned to be. He believed He was a Son of the [[Most High]]'s. He had [[envy]] nor [[jealous]] for no man. He had not wanted anything from anyone. Nobody on this world could give Him what Father could. He tended to His spiritual life before all things.
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What would matter to you now should matter to you for [[eternity]]. Those things that are important today should concern eternity--all else is small details. This week we ask that you [[ponder]] the many sides of your [[personalities]] and know that God speaks to you from a [[standpoint]] of who you really are. What is your spiritual diet and does it have an [[effect]] on your [[eternal career]]? What can be done to bring out the best in yourself without relying on others to do it for you? I thank you for allowing me this [[experience]] and I [[hope]] I can return to better know you each. I return you to ABRAHAM.
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The Master began in this life as any mortal does. He learned. He experienced. He grew. He had gains and losses. He knew victory and defeat. He experienced those heightened senses of mortal joy and the darkest hours of despair. He knew love and He understood hate. He experienced prejudice and unsolicited adoration. He complained not. The Master questioned not His Father for the reason He experienced what He had. He dwelled with the serenity that Father had His reasons and it was the Master's fondest desire to follow Father.
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Greetings friends and my [[gratitude]] to Athena for your lesson. I am [[grateful]] for your help. I would take a few [[questions]].
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===Dialogue===
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===='''''[[The Teachers]]'''''====
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TR: Let me ask one for Charlie B., and Charlie wants to know is there any [[geological]] [[factors]] to [[the teachers]] placements.
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ABRAHAM: My son, our [[Correcting Time]] is in its beginning [[stages]]. There are many [[called]], but it is taking time for [[individuals]] to answer. It matters not station in life for a teacher to come to an area. It is up to [[individuals]] who will [[receive]] our words. We do seek individuals who are less likely to need some sort of [[aggrandizement]] or special [[attention]]. We look for [[average]] individuals who are open to this [[method]] of [[communication]] and serving their fellows for free. There are many who [[awaken]] every day to the Correcting Time, and I would say to you that there will be many [[transmitters]] \ receivers and it will seem common place. I [[hope]] this answers. Another question?
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The Master did not seek credit for going about doing good, nor did He find it necessary to inform others of His good works for them. He found it unnecessary to accept any praise from others, just as He found it unnecessary to accept their criticism. On this world He was indebted to no man. He could not be bought, nor owned by anyone. He knew that everything came from Father and everything must go back to Father.
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MIRIAM: Allena's friend Mickey has become interested in your lessons and (we) have started sending them to her. She asked if she could ask a [[question]] about a friend of hers who is very ill. I apologize, but I don't have the specifics, but you might not want to get into the specifics anyway. I [[hope]] you who I am talking about. Mickie's [[question]] was, was her friends [[diagnosis]] [[accurate]] and should they follow along that line? Just anything you have for her if you could.
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ABRAHAM: I cannot answer that [[accurately]] without more [[information]]. I cannot provide [[proof]] of my [[existence]]. (I apologize Abraham. She sent me the specifics. I didn't get that it was proof or anything. I should have typed it out. I apologize.) I would like to answer the question to be of better [[service]]. I am [[limited]] in what I can say, for we must keep [[our Mission]] grounded and away from [[mysticism]]. Is this [[acceptable]] for now? (Oh, certainly Abraham. Thank you.) You're welcome. Another question?
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===='''''[[Rebellion]]'''''====
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MIRIAM: I had a [[question]] about the [[Lucifer Rebellion]]. Whenever I think I know what [[patience]] is I always think about Father in waiting and waiting and waiting for [[the adjudication]] to happen. I guess I was wondering about [[Caligastia]] and all those folks that went with him, that hung out for all that time, and they were given plenty of [[time]] to [[change]] their mind, etc.. When the adjudication finally happened could you just [[describe]] that a little bit? Was it like they were absolutely rock solid and they said, no, we are not changing? Was there [[fear]] involved with them? Was it like the [[Ancients of Days]] saying, okay, that's it? Do you know what I am saying? I was wondering when it happened--why then? You know with the [[Correcting time]] and all--was it like the [[critical mass]]--it was just time for the [[healing]] to move on and for [[the quarantine]] to be lifted so that [[the circuits]] could open up? Does that seem like a question that you could answer to help me [[understand]] it a little bit more?
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The love and closeness the Master experienced with Father was not to be compared to the love and acceptance of any mortal. Granted, He loved His followers, but He did not need their love. He did however need Fathers. He lived, moved and had his being in the love of the Father. The Master was passionate about certain issues, but He did not use emotionalism to further His cause. He used a balanced mixture of love, logic and practical life application. The beauty of God shone in His face and that was what attracted people's attention.
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ABRAHAM: I can try. From my [[understanding]] [[the Rebellion]] was allowed to run a natural evolutionary [[course]]. There were those who [[repented]] and were taken back into the fold of [[Nebadon]]. There were those who were unchanging in their [[minds]] and posed a threat to the master plan. In the [[timing]] of [[the adjudication]], it went with natural evolutionary [[growth]], as does the [[Correcting Time]]. The Correcting Time has been functioning for many years prior to the adjudication to [[prepare]] the minds of mortals for the [[changes]] to come. The adjudication was somewhat [[separate]] from the plans here on [[Urantia]], but works toward our benefit. With the resolution of the adjudication [[the circuits]] were reinstalled as was [[promised]]. The rebellious ones were no longer, so there the [[danger]] of further infecting [[Urantia]] was no longer a threat. Is this answering? (Yes--you know those folks who were no longer--were they afraid before they were no longer or were they just solidly where they were and wasn't going to [[change]]?)
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===='''''[[Sin]]''''', '''''[[Iniquity]]'''''====
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So many years spent in [[selfish]] [[love]] creates a [[hunger]] that is never fulfilled unless it is given more self-love. Those rebellious ones were [[imprisoned]] inside the [[self]], unable to go beyond to see all else that really mattered. It was as if it was [[drug]] [[addiction]]. They could make [[effort]] to [[escape]] their plight, but [[character]] [[weakness]] and faithless [[practices]] always led them back to the drug of their choice, that being [[self]]-[[love]]. It is acceptable to have a [[balance]] in love for self and knowing all [[goodness]] within comes from [[Ta|our internal God]], but this was a self-love without God, without [[patience]], [[faith]] and concern for [[the whole]]. Yes, there was [[fear]], and yet no willingness to [[embrace]] new [[possibilities]]. There was [[acceptance]] though, as if the rebellious ones knew there was some type of [[freedom]] in [[annihilation]]. No longer were they [[tortured]] in [[mind]] and [[desire]]. A sorrowful, but valuable, time in the [[Part 2|history of the universe]]. This [[experience]] is documented and taught in other universes. How helpful it has been to many [[beings]], but most of all to the [[growth]] and the experience of the [[Supreme Being]]. All that goes into our Supreme Being, God of time, comes back to us [[modified]] with [[meaning]] and [[value]]. Is this helping? (Oh Abraham, yes. Thank you.) You're welcome. Another question?
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CALVIN: Abraham, [[George Barnard]] is coming to the States--probably here now--from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Australia]. Do you have a comment about his work with the [[Midwayers]] to put on the record, and also a word or two of Athena--who she is maybe so we might know her better?
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He was not a salesman with a product to sell, but a lamp to shine unto those who would have Him. He lived not to convince others that He was right and in charge of all destiny, no. He lived to see the joy of knowing God on the faces of people He ministered to. He was not a missionary, nor a preacher, or some authority who would set everyone straight. He was a friend to man, but more so He was a minister to their soul, a Brother, Caretaker, Nurturer, and Teacher. He is so that you may become more.
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ABRAHAM: Yes, I know George and I am delighted he has had contact with [[the Mission]] participants. Many [[mortals]] will serve in various [[functions]] and he is quite [[gifted]] at what he does. His [[balanced]] demeanor gives our Mission a stable [[foundation]] to show that we are about everyday [[average]] [[reality]]. I have to wait to answer your questions about Athena. I think at a later date she can answer for herself. I do know there could be some [[confusion]] and allowing time to go by will reveal more clear answers. Is this acceptable? (Oh very well. I can see what you are saying.) Another question?
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HARRISON: Abraham, my [[mother]] is going through some [[health]] [[challenges]]. She has been to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University Duke University]. Are there some words of [[encouragement]] you could offer?
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Ponder upon His excellent balance of spirituality, logic and passion. This balance is also yours to have by and through understanding the Master and having a close personal relationship with Him. Emotions may drive the ego, but care and passion drives the soul.
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ABRAHAM: My son Harrison, your [[faith]] astounds me. I know of the powerful [[love]] you have for your [[mother]], and for you to ask me for words for her is [[touching]]. I will do my best. My daughter, there is always [[health]] issues to contend with when one advances in years. I would say however that your underlying [[fear]] [[magnifies]] your health problems. I believe you are a woman of [[faith]], and yet still there lingers a [[doubt]] that this is our only [[chance]] for life. Allow me to calm your fears by saying I can [[assure]] you, that you, having lived a mortal life, have not even glimpsed the splendor that you are in for. [[Fear]] not the [[next life]] [[transition]], for it [[burdens]] your life today. Live each moment in the fullness of knowing that God with you and He holds you in His [[watchcare]]. Only enjoy these moments for what they are and allow the [[future]] to take care of itself. Take [[comfort]] in knowing that [[Sot|the Spirit of Christ]] speaks to you small [[whispers]] of [[promises]] that are to be actualized in [[eternity]]. Is this helping Harrison? (Yes. Thank you.)
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SARAUNA: Abraham, I have been wondering if you know who my [[father]] is [[communicating]] with?
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We think of our beloved Creator/Brother/Father on this day and celebrate our salvation, our salvation from selfishness, and the animal side. This week we ask you again to think about what you are ready to lay down and ponder perhaps what attributes of the Master's you would be ready to take up. Tonight I suggest we use one emotion in celebration in our Brother/Father---be joyful. Until next time, my friends, farewell.
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ABRAHAM: I [[perceive]] it to be only a relative, not of special importance, as he thinks it might be. I cannot say much more on this matter. Is there something else you would ask? (I don't know how---I feel very small in this situation. [Inaudible.] Do you [[understand]] what I am saying?) I can understand. I cannot give you direct [[guidance]], for that is Father's [[duty]]. I can only reassure you that you play a very important role, even if you do not see it that way. You do plant [[seeds]] by your words and show of [[faith]], and they do have an [[impact]], even if it is not [[immediate]]. Your [[focus]] could be best place on [[attaining]] [[clarity]] of mind and tending to your own garden of [[faith]]. [[Strengthen]] yourself through closeness with Father and [[our Master]], who makes all things [[balanced]] and put into [[simple]] form. Know that in these lost [[feelings]] there is Sarauna who reaches and builds those spiritual muscles, and becomes more [[wise]] in [[thinking]] and [[mature]] in [[action]]. [[Fear]] not, my daughter, for the spiritual forces are with you. You have the [[ability]] to do many things. You need to begin from a place of clear [[thinking]] in order to receive divine [[guidance]]. Is this helping? (Thank you very much Abraham. Your words are always helpful.) Certainly.
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===Closing===
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I am always with more [[love]] each time we can all meet. I have enjoyed our [[interaction]] and I view you each to be my spiritual co-[[partners]] side by side with me. Yes. I am [[grateful]]. Until next week, [[shalom]].
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: Woods Cross TeaM]]
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[[Category: Abraham]]
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[[Category: Athena]]
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[[Category: Nina]]
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[[Category: Balance]]
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[[Category: Personality]]
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[[Category: The Teachers]]
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[[Category: Rebellion]]
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[[Category: Sin]]
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[[Category: Iniquity]]
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[[Category: 2000]]
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