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Hello friends--per Rob's invitation, I extracted this overview of the TM dialogues from my own writings (at Evolving-Souls.org) and offer it as alternative way to introduce the subject matter at dialogues.daynal.org. You may use or edit or extract from this as you see fit, Rob. --Byron
 
Hello friends--per Rob's invitation, I extracted this overview of the TM dialogues from my own writings (at Evolving-Souls.org) and offer it as alternative way to introduce the subject matter at dialogues.daynal.org. You may use or edit or extract from this as you see fit, Rob. --Byron
      
The Celestial Teaching Mission—
 
The Celestial Teaching Mission—
 
a Mission in Service to the Urantia Revelation
 
a Mission in Service to the Urantia Revelation
      
Beginning in the late 1980s, and especially since 1992, something unprecedented erupted onto our planet—an outpouring of profound celestial teachings and energies that has persisted and grown ever since, culminating in this specialized archive, numerous conferences, and various compilations and websites.  
 
Beginning in the late 1980s, and especially since 1992, something unprecedented erupted onto our planet—an outpouring of profound celestial teachings and energies that has persisted and grown ever since, culminating in this specialized archive, numerous conferences, and various compilations and websites.  
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But how could such an uncanny feat be carried out? Well, the Mission has been planned for centuries. Our celestial “masters” and their angelic collaborators had been carefully recruited to come to our planet explicitly as spiritual teachers when the age was ripe. They would teach from a common curriculum provided by a celestial class of educators known as the Melchizedeks—and specifically adapted for the TM by Machiventa Melchizedek himself.
 
But how could such an uncanny feat be carried out? Well, the Mission has been planned for centuries. Our celestial “masters” and their angelic collaborators had been carefully recruited to come to our planet explicitly as spiritual teachers when the age was ripe. They would teach from a common curriculum provided by a celestial class of educators known as the Melchizedeks—and specifically adapted for the TM by Machiventa Melchizedek himself.
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But who exactly were our unseen mission-driven instructors who would teach us? They had originated from scores of advanced planets, but they were not material ETs. They hailed from the spirit worlds; they had survived death on their home planets. In other words, they had ascended by natural means (i.e., resurrection after death) to higher realms, also known in the UB as “mansions”—as Jesus put it somewhere in the Bible. It was here that surviving souls continue to live and grow in the afterlife, at least according to the Urantia Revelation. (For a description see papers 47 and 48 in The Urantia Book). And in these metaphysical worlds our intrepid teachers-to-be had received the advanced intellectual and spiritual training that all heavenly ascenders are entitled to, in some cases for periods of up to 50,000 years. And now, they had volunteered to condescend (in the best sense) to come to Earth for a most unusual mission.
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But who exactly were our unseen mission-driven instructors who would teach us? They had originated from scores of advanced planets, but they were not material ETs. They hailed from the spirit worlds; they had survived death on their home planets. In other words, they had ascended by natural means (i.e., resurrection after death) to higher realms, also known in the UB as “mansions”—as Jesus put it somewhere in the Bible. It was here that surviving souls continue to live and grow in the afterlife, at least according to the Urantia Revelation. (For a description see papers 47 and 48 in The Urantia Book). And in these metaphysical worlds our intrepid teachers-to-be had received the advanced intellectual and spiritual training that all heavenly ascenders are entitled to, in some cases for periods of up to 50,000 years. And now, they had volunteered to condescend (in the best sense) to come to Earth for a most unusual mission. Put another way, these ascended humans were not “brothers from outer space” contacting earthlings from UFOs, and not beings from the lower “astral” realms who were offering ad hoc “channelings.” They were enlightened beings speaking from domiciles in the higher etheric realms, and they were charged with the task of offering us lessons that they themselves had long ago mastered. These teachings were in fact based on the standard curriculum as taught on the initial levels of the heavenly mansion realms in first stages of the afterlife.
Put another way, these ascended humans were not “brothers from outer space” contacting earthlings from UFOs, and not beings from the lower “astral” realms who were offering ad hoc “channelings.” They were enlightened beings speaking from domiciles in the higher etheric realms, and they were charged with the task of offering us lessons that they themselves had long ago mastered. These teachings were in fact based on the standard curriculum as taught on the initial levels of the heavenly mansion realms in first stages of the afterlife.
      
It should be noted here that most of our instructors were not true “Ascended Masters” in the sense used in the Theosophical tradition to designate teachers like St. Germain and Djwal Khul. In that system, Ascended Masters always originate on Earth; our TM “masters” had as a rule ascended to higher planes from other planets—specifically planets that were not dark and warlike as was ours. But there were a few exceptions: many TM transmissions over the years have been received from Abraham—whose story is told in Genesis in the Bible—and a few from Yogananda, the great Indian guru and saint of the twentieth century, and even from Martin Luther King. These would technically be Ascended Masters as Theosophists understand that phrase, but they are the exception in the TM. The Teaching Mission groups also received transmissions from a wide variety of angelic beings and high teachers who are the indigenous citizens of the upper worlds.
 
It should be noted here that most of our instructors were not true “Ascended Masters” in the sense used in the Theosophical tradition to designate teachers like St. Germain and Djwal Khul. In that system, Ascended Masters always originate on Earth; our TM “masters” had as a rule ascended to higher planes from other planets—specifically planets that were not dark and warlike as was ours. But there were a few exceptions: many TM transmissions over the years have been received from Abraham—whose story is told in Genesis in the Bible—and a few from Yogananda, the great Indian guru and saint of the twentieth century, and even from Martin Luther King. These would technically be Ascended Masters as Theosophists understand that phrase, but they are the exception in the TM. The Teaching Mission groups also received transmissions from a wide variety of angelic beings and high teachers who are the indigenous citizens of the upper worlds.
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This discussion has been moved now to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Daynal_Institute this location].--rdavis 22:54, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 
This discussion has been moved now to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Daynal_Institute this location].--rdavis 22:54, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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'''Rob wrote: Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 7:03 PM'''
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Taken as a whole, I think this is writing better suited to an enthusiast's history. I rather like the succinct description of the Dialogues that is [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Team found here] that allows persons to make up their own minds what the Teaching Mission is by virtue of examining its literary artefacts without regard to confessional beliefs.
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<blockquote>The Teaching Mission: Dialogues are textual artefacts of oral lessons given by Ascending and Descending teachers of various orders of universe intelligence and the ensuing discussion with their mortal students of widely varying backgrounds. These utilize The Urantia Book for basic reference while engaged in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity.</blockquote>
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Otherwise, my specific comments are below.
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*''The Celestial Teaching Mission—a Mission in Service to the Urantia Revelation''
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:The word celestial misses the most important point, namely that it is a spiritual initiative enjoining terrestrial partners. To characterize it as in service to the ''Urantia Revelation'' tends toward a more narrow objective.
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*over 5,000 sessions of interaction
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:actually there are over 7500 records of individual sessions representing a small percentage of unrecorded sessions.
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*The TM groups were to receive systematic instruction by what we now know is a organized corps of “ascended masters”
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:I think Teaching Mission participants is more accurate than TM groups, but no reference has been made to "ascended masters" given this has been derided by some teachers as missing the point. The term is perhaps helpful to those interested in celestial beings as 'masters' when such can hardly be the case based upon what has been taught thus far.
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*''The Unique Background Story of the Teaching Mission''
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: It seems less than unique given the number of other such initiatives on this planet operating in advance and alongside and as an everyday activity on "normal worlds".
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*Machiventa Melchizedek, a key personality in the narratives of the Urantian revelation.
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:Your pitch toward a larger audience might be better served by referencing Machiventa as a key personality 1) explicitly, in the founding of monotheism, and 2) tacitly, in all the world's religions rather than just the Urantia revelation
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*Our celestial “masters” and their angelic collaborators
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:This seems more akin to the terminology that is sought to remedy.
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*The late, great (and soon to be restored) planet earth
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:This section seems more of an addendum--rdavis 00:35, 16 June 2013 (UTC)