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===Topic: ''Receptivity''===

DATE: September 26, 1996

===Group: [[Pittsburgh TeaM]]===

 

LOCATION: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

===Teacher: [[Tomas]]===

 

===TR: [[Gerdean]]===

T/R: Gerdean

 

TEXTUAL STUDY: Urantia Paper 113: Seraphic Guardians of Destiny, continued

 

 

TOMAS: Good evening, my friends. I am Tomas . ..

TOMAS: Good evening, my friends. I am Tomas . ..

I have heard testimony from virtually each of you recently that confirms/affirms your reality response to our gatherings. This is not to my credit, but to the credit of you, my students, for there is no growth without your willingness to grow; and although it is and has been a steady increase for you since your own decision-making process in the ascent, it has been exciting for me, for us in the Teacher Corps, to behold how firmly and finely you have responded to the Mission effort.

I have heard testimony from virtually each of you recently that confirms/affirms your reality response to our gatherings. This is not to my credit, but to the credit of you, my students, for there is no growth without your willingness to grow; and although it is and has been a steady increase for you since your own decision-making process in the ascent, it has been exciting for me, for us in the Teacher Corps, to behold how firmly and finely you have responded to the Mission effort.

 

Along those lines and in keeping with our lesson plan … our established format for the Pittsburgh pumpkins … I will address a furtherance of last week's lesson having to do with unselfish devotion. I know you have all had a chance to devote a quality moment in time to the substance of the lesson. You have all been able to review, at some point, what true devotions you have engendered in your life's experience. But I promised that this evening I would speak to you somewhat about how it is that you/we may take this fruit of the spirit to its nth degree, ascertain how it is that devotion to the Father will bring about the desired fruits in our lives.

Along those lines and in keeping with our lesson plan … our established format for the Pittsburgh pumpkins … I will address a furtherance of last week's lesson having to do with unselfish devotion. I know you have all had a chance to devote a quality moment in time to the substance of the lesson. You have all been able to review, at some point, what true devotions you have engendered in your life's experience. But I promised that this evening I would speak to you somewhat about how it is that you/we may take this fruit of the spirit to its nth degree, ascertain how it is that devotion to the Father will bring about the desired fruits in our lives.

How can we manifest unselfish devotion most effectively to help bring about His will in our lives and in the lives of others? Have any of you given consideration to that?

How can we manifest unselfish devotion most effectively to help bring about His will in our lives and in the lives of others? Have any of you given consideration to that?

 

Elizabeth: Yes.

Elizabeth: Yes.

TOMAS: Thank you, my daughter. Your spirit is invigorated and it gives me great pleasure to behold you thrive.

TOMAS: Thank you, my daughter. Your spirit is invigorated and it gives me great pleasure to behold you thrive.

 

My delightful children, I am going to withdraw. We have had a sumptuous feast. I have been your guest this evening and I hope you have enjoyed this feast half as much as I have. It is a true pinnacle in my experience as a teacher to greet you thus this evening. I know we will prevail. Tonight I tell you I know we will succeed. I am confident.

My delightful children, I am going to withdraw. We have had a sumptuous feast. I have been your guest this evening and I hope you have enjoyed this feast half as much as I have. It is a true pinnacle in my experience as a teacher to greet you thus this evening. I know we will prevail. Tonight I tell you I know we will succeed. I am confident.

I will see you next week. Farewell.

I will see you next week. Farewell.

*Urantia Paper 3, Attributes of God:

Urantia Paper 3, Attributes of God:

Is unselfishness--the spirit of self-forgetfulness--desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. (P.51 - §12 8.)

Is unselfishness--the spirit of self-forgetfulness--desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. (P.51 - §12 8.)