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===Topic: ''The Manifold Mercy of the Master''===

===Topic: ''Mercy of the Master''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

TOMAS:  I can tell you are good by the rousing discourse you enjoyed before we began the process.  Let me see what the evening will bring.  I have no particular theme in mind.  The idea has been thrust upon us all to ad lib, as it were, and so we have an opportunity to draw upon our inner life, each of us, and commingle those juices, ideas, ideals, comforts and concerns with one another.  Let us commence.  Who’s first?

TOMAS:  I can tell you are good by the rousing discourse you enjoyed before we began the process.  Let me see what the evening will bring.  I have no particular theme in mind.  The idea has been thrust upon us all to ad lib, as it were, and so we have an opportunity to draw upon our inner life, each of us, and commingle those juices, ideas, ideals, comforts and concerns with one another.  Let us commence.  Who’s first?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

===='''''[[Mercy]]'''''====

====''[[Mercy]]''====

Felix.  I have a question.  This is Felix.  Hello, Tomas. How have you been?

Felix.  I have a question.  This is Felix.  Hello, Tomas. How have you been?

   

   

   

   

Felix:  Absolutely, Tomas. Thank you.  Thank you for this.  I now have a better understanding of this concept. One last question … and this may be a little bit of a curiosity --  

Felix:  Absolutely, Tomas. Thank you.  Thank you for this.  I now have a better understanding of this concept. One last question … and this may be a little bit of a curiosity --  

===='''''[[Mansion Worlds]]'''''====

====''[[Mansion Worlds]]''====

TOMAS:  Let me go on before I change the subject -- or before you change the subject. I just want to add that in Mansonia, in the mansion worlds, there are areas of rehabilitation.  It’s all about rehabilitation.  And there are sectors that are prepared to deal with these (?), such as you mentioned.  Not necessarily in the segregating style that you are accustomed to here, where the bright students are put into the advanced class and the slower students are put into special classes, not exactly like that - but similar -  because some are going to  need more attention than others.  Some of you who have been diligent here in rectifying the deficiencies of your past will be able to assist in rehabilitating those who have not done such work here for one reason or another.  

TOMAS:  Let me go on before I change the subject -- or before you change the subject. I just want to add that in Mansonia, in the mansion worlds, there are areas of rehabilitation.  It’s all about rehabilitation.  And there are sectors that are prepared to deal with these (?), such as you mentioned.  Not necessarily in the segregating style that you are accustomed to here, where the bright students are put into the advanced class and the slower students are put into special classes, not exactly like that - but similar -  because some are going to  need more attention than others.  Some of you who have been diligent here in rectifying the deficiencies of your past will be able to assist in rehabilitating those who have not done such work here for one reason or another.  

   

   

   

   

Felix.  Understood.  Well thanks for the explanation.  This is great.  It is good to know this.  There is mercy -- unlimited mercy for everybody.  That’s fantastic.

Felix.  Understood.  Well thanks for the explanation.  This is great.  It is good to know this.  There is mercy -- unlimited mercy for everybody.  That’s fantastic.

===='''''[[Teacher Contact]]'''''====

====''[[Teacher Contact]]''====

So , one last question.  I was talking to Gerdean about this.  Since I’m not a perfect guy.  I live my life, and I just do whatever I can to be happy and I’m aware of the Urantia Book, I joined a study group and all that; sometimes I make my mistakes, you know, I’m not perfect.  So maybe – it was a comic situation but I was telling Gerdean, I don’t even have a teacher!  Maybe the one that I had – if I ever had one – quit his job because he could not deal with me.  So, I mean, do I even have one?  Will I ever have the opportunity to work with one?

So , one last question.  I was talking to Gerdean about this.  Since I’m not a perfect guy.  I live my life, and I just do whatever I can to be happy and I’m aware of the Urantia Book, I joined a study group and all that; sometimes I make my mistakes, you know, I’m not perfect.  So maybe – it was a comic situation but I was telling Gerdean, I don’t even have a teacher!  Maybe the one that I had – if I ever had one – quit his job because he could not deal with me.  So, I mean, do I even have one?  Will I ever have the opportunity to work with one?

   

   

   

   

TOMAS:  I am happy to hear that.  We need more workers in the field and we need those who will be of good cheer.  So if you are looking forward to the work ahead, you will be a co-worker in demand.  

TOMAS:  I am happy to hear that.  We need more workers in the field and we need those who will be of good cheer.  So if you are looking forward to the work ahead, you will be a co-worker in demand.  

===='''''[[Experience]]'''''====

====''[[Experience]]''====

Marty:  I have a question, Teacher Tomas, based on something you said before, that the most important thing that we can do (I don’t know if “important” was the word) is to know the religious life of Jesus.  And the only way that we could possibly know that would be in communion with him, in our Stillness period.  It’s not something you can read about. It’s something he can only give you first hand, I think.  

Marty:  I have a question, Teacher Tomas, based on something you said before, that the most important thing that we can do (I don’t know if “important” was the word) is to know the religious life of Jesus.  And the only way that we could possibly know that would be in communion with him, in our Stillness period.  It’s not something you can read about. It’s something he can only give you first hand, I think.  

   

   

   

   

TOMAS:  An intellectual grasp, yes.  And there are many who are happy with an intellectual grasp, but the living of it is where the meat is; that’s where the true substance of a spirit-led life lies; that’s where your superhumanness is -- in identifying with the religious life of Jesus, for example, in identifying with the qualities and the aspirations of an elder Son of God.  As you look to those who have something to teach, and learn from them, you are assimilating their wisdom, their value.  You can read books night and day and get a lot of wonderful information but there is no teacher like personal experience.

TOMAS:  An intellectual grasp, yes.  And there are many who are happy with an intellectual grasp, but the living of it is where the meat is; that’s where the true substance of a spirit-led life lies; that’s where your superhumanness is -- in identifying with the religious life of Jesus, for example, in identifying with the qualities and the aspirations of an elder Son of God.  As you look to those who have something to teach, and learn from them, you are assimilating their wisdom, their value.  You can read books night and day and get a lot of wonderful information but there is no teacher like personal experience.

===='''''[[Jesus]]'''''====

====''[[Jesus]]''====

And so to have an appreciation for the religious life of the Master, you need to enter into that yourself, personally. It’s not just an intellectual comprehension of what you are doing here, how you got here, where you are going, but otherness.  How your energy affects others, how their energy affects yours.  Are you in harmony with divine order? And if you are not in harmony, then get away from the circumstances, including yourself, and find that harmony as the Master did when he would get away from whatever it was he was involved in and just spend time with Father, finding himself, finding his rightmindedness.  

And so to have an appreciation for the religious life of the Master, you need to enter into that yourself, personally. It’s not just an intellectual comprehension of what you are doing here, how you got here, where you are going, but otherness.  How your energy affects others, how their energy affects yours.  Are you in harmony with divine order? And if you are not in harmony, then get away from the circumstances, including yourself, and find that harmony as the Master did when he would get away from whatever it was he was involved in and just spend time with Father, finding himself, finding his rightmindedness.  

   

   

   

   

Marty:  It’s really amazing and it’s wonderful.

Marty:  It’s really amazing and it’s wonderful.

===='''''[[Catastrophism]]'''''====

====''[[Catastrophism]]''====

TOMAS:  Do not despair when you see calamities such as the oil spill occuring,  These are part of the learning process, the learning curve humanity goes through, particularly when they have attained a point of technological expertise.  This is no worse a man-made disaster than Hiroshima, and yet in time healing does take place and you learn from these devastating experiences. So consider the learning that is going on for your world.  The entire world is learning from this experience, this exposure to imperfection, to incompleteness.  Try to have mercy.  Try to have understanding.  This too shall pass and many lessons will be learned.

TOMAS:  Do not despair when you see calamities such as the oil spill occuring,  These are part of the learning process, the learning curve humanity goes through, particularly when they have attained a point of technological expertise.  This is no worse a man-made disaster than Hiroshima, and yet in time healing does take place and you learn from these devastating experiences. So consider the learning that is going on for your world.  The entire world is learning from this experience, this exposure to imperfection, to incompleteness.  Try to have mercy.  Try to have understanding.  This too shall pass and many lessons will be learned.