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Elizabeth: Well, this sounds so [[wonderful]]. My daughter is always saying to me when I tell her that [[Lucifer]] was [[adjudicated]], she always seems to say, "Well, you might think he's gone but I seem to see his [[influence]] everywhere," so might I ask you, Tomas, are there just some psychic [[shadows]] left? Or how could you [[describe]] what is left from his former great [[influence]]?

Elizabeth: Well, this sounds so [[wonderful]]. My daughter is always saying to me when I tell her that [[Lucifer]] was [[adjudicated]], she always seems to say, "Well, you might think he's gone but I seem to see his [[influence]] everywhere," so might I ask you, Tomas, are there just some psychic [[shadows]] left? Or how could you [[describe]] what is left from his former great [[influence]]?

TOMAS: Well, my dear, of course I have a couple of things to say. One of which is -- and I don't mean to be discouraging, but look at your [[reading]] from this evening having to do with the [[ghost cults]], and how long it is that the effects of a pervasive [[belief]] or [[behavior]] lends its residual effects on a people -- in that, it will be a long time before [[Lucifer]]'s [[influence]] is completely eradicated from [[Urantia]]. For [[eons]] you will be [[feeling]] and whiffing the effects, but they are not crippling and [[captivating]] as they were.

TOMAS: Well, my dear, of course I have a couple of things to say. One of which is -- and I don't mean to be discouraging, but look at your [[reading]] from this evening having to do with the [[ghost cults]], and how long it is that the effects of a pervasive [[belief]] or [[behavior]] lends its residual effects on a people -- in that, it will be a long time before [[Lucifer]]'s [[influence]] is completely eradicated from [[Urantia]]. For [[eons]] you will be [[feeling]] and whiffing the effects, but they are not crippling and captivating as they were.

Indeed, you have heard it suggested that you look at [[your planet]] and its activities not as a black [[orb]] with small spots of white upon it, but rather as a white orb with small spots of black upon it, for this is a matter of [[perception]]. As you outlined it, your daughter is seeing the black background with a few white dots and you are seeing the white background with a few black dots, and you [[wonder]] "do we live in the same world?"  There are still many, many [[evils]] floating around, but [[Lucifer]] and [[Caligastia]] and [[Satan]] are no longer contributing.  

Indeed, you have heard it suggested that you look at [[your planet]] and its activities not as a black [[orb]] with small spots of white upon it, but rather as a white orb with small spots of black upon it, for this is a matter of [[perception]]. As you outlined it, your daughter is seeing the black background with a few white dots and you are seeing the white background with a few black dots, and you [[wonder]] "do we live in the same world?"  There are still many, many [[evils]] floating around, but [[Lucifer]] and [[Caligastia]] and [[Satan]] are no longer contributing.  

The fight is on -- the good fight of [[faith]] -- and we are already overcoming. The [[effects]] are already being felt, [[manifested]] and appreciated. We are quite [[encouraged]]. We eagerly await the next [[unfolding]]. Your contributions as spirit-born, God-led [[individuals]] in grasping these [[fruits of the spirit]] and allowing them to effectively permeate [[your world]], tells the [[shadows]] and the [[darkness]] that God is alive. He is standing up through you, his noble [[ambassadors]], for those [[values]] that [[Jesus]] taught, and that you teach by your very way of life.

The fight is on -- the good fight of [[faith]] -- and we are already overcoming. The [[effects]] are already being felt, [[manifested]] and appreciated. We are quite [[encouraged]]. We eagerly await the next [[unfolding]]. Your contributions as spirit-born, God-led [[individuals]] in grasping these [[fruits of the spirit]] and allowing them to effectively permeate [[your world]], tells the [[shadows]] and the [[darkness]] that God is alive. He is standing up through you, his noble [[ambassadors]], for those [[values]] that [[Jesus]] taught, and that you teach by your very way of life.

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===Closing===

Thank you very much, my friends, and my students. I am going to leave you for this evening. It has been a [[pleasure]]. I have enjoyed a nice [[rapport]] with you this evening. I am eagerly [[anticipating]] our next encounter and I will leave you with an assignment in your core being, in your own [[understanding]] of [[goodness]], and when you [[ponder]] whether or not you have been good, look and see if you have not been truly unfailingly good because of that resident [[God within]].  

Thank you very much, my friends, and my students. I am going to leave you for this evening. It has been a [[pleasure]]. I have enjoyed a nice [[rapport]] with you this evening. I am eagerly [[anticipating]] our next encounter and I will leave you with an assignment in your core being, in your own [[understanding]] of [[goodness]], and when you [[ponder]] whether or not you have been good, look and see if you have not been truly unfailingly good because of that resident [[God within]].