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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

TOMAS: Good afternoon, loyal friends. This is Tomas. I am [[happy]] to be here with you today and to [[experience]] with you your ebullient [[moods]] in light of the fair weather, the holiday, and the [[joy]] in knowing each other as siblings in the [[Family of God]]. We'll have a visitor today. You've met Merium's energies before. I have a recollection of her bringing the story of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamplighter Lamp Lighter] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Lamp-Lighter] and your equipment failing to capture her message. But let me step aside and allow Merium now to speak for herself. One moment, please.

TOMAS: Good afternoon, loyal friends. This is Tomas. I am [[happy]] to be here with you today and to [[experience]] with you your ebullient [[moods]] in light of the fair weather, the holiday, and the [[joy]] in knowing each other as siblings in the [[Family of God]]. We'll have a visitor today. You've met Merium's energies before. I have a recollection of her bringing the story of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamplighter Lamp Lighter] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Lamp-Lighter] and your equipment failing to capture her message. But let me step aside and allow Merium now to speak for herself. One moment, please.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Joy]]'''''====

===='''''[[Joy]]'''''====

This [[balance]] is a part of the [[pattern]] that will accompany you throughout [[eternity]], work always being balanced with [[play]]. Now, the subtleties of such a [[truth]] are infinitely varied, inasmuch as there are those who play at their work and work at their play; there are those who have their best time when they're working and those who play seriously. Thus it is not simply a matter to attending to your [[work]] with a [[solemn]] sense of [[responsibility]], setting aside your work and giving yourself over to rambunctious play, no, but to keep yourself sufficiently loose that you do not find the [[experience]] of life to be a [[burden]] or a monotonous experience.

This [[balance]] is a part of the [[pattern]] that will accompany you throughout [[eternity]], work always being balanced with [[play]]. Now, the subtleties of such a [[truth]] are infinitely varied, inasmuch as there are those who play at their work and work at their play; there are those who have their best time when they're working and those who play seriously. Thus it is not simply a matter to attending to your [[work]] with a [[solemn]] sense of [[responsibility]], setting aside your work and giving yourself over to rambunctious play, no, but to keep yourself sufficiently loose that you do not find the [[experience]] of life to be a [[burden]] or a monotonous experience.

This is one of the indications of a [[society]] in flux that variety will enter in to embellish that which has been established, so that you keep doing what you must do while finding ways to [[enjoy]] it more. There were times when there was no enjoyment. There is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_gothic famous picture], in fact, of a [[farmer]] and his [[wife]] with their grim [[countenances]], and indeed it was true that life was a [[burden]] of existence for those early [[pioneers]] of your civilization which now has a picture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Newman Alfred E. Newman] to indicate the other column, that little goofy looking fellow on MAD Magazine.

This is one of the indications of a [[society]] in flux that variety will enter in to embellish that which has been established, so that you keep doing what you must do while finding ways to [[enjoy]] it more. There were times when there was no enjoyment. There is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_gothic famous picture], in fact, of a [[farmer]] and his [[wife]] with their grim [[countenances]], and indeed it was true that life was a [[burden]] of existence for those early [[pioneers]] of your civilization which now has a picture of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Newman Alfred E. Newman] to indicate the other column, that little goofy looking fellow on MAD Magazine.

===='''''[[The Teachers]]'''''====

===='''''[[The Teachers]]'''''====

Sometimes we are serious and sometimes playful, and I am more known for my playfulness than my seriousness. Let's talk a bit about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day Mother's Day] since it's scheduled, even before we got here. And let me tell you just a bit about myself before we talk about [[mothers]]. I am not a mother in the sense of the word that you would understand. Even though I had a [[mortal]] life as you are enjoying, I did not have children; I never gave [[birth]] to any other human being in the flesh as you understand motherhood. However, I am a marvelous mother in spirit. I was perhaps what you might call an [[elder]] sibling, a teen-ager, and I had a hovering kind of attitude, much like a hen will have over her chicks. I amassed all the children in the [[neighborhood]], in the [[community]], and they became my charge, my interest. I have, of course, a great appreciation for the [[sibling]] relationship, but that never came into my [[personality]] [[frame of reference]] until after I left the mortal plane and began to experience [[parenting]] again in and through [[47:2 The Probationary Nursery|the nurseries]], and there I encountered others like myself who had not had physical children but who needed an understanding of [[parenting]]. Those others, then, were my siblings. Thus I have a full sense of [[appreciation]] for my brothers and sisters, but again, it was not a [[human]]-based [[frame of reference]].

Sometimes we are serious and sometimes playful, and I am more known for my playfulness than my seriousness. Let's talk a bit about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day Mother's Day] since it's scheduled, even before we got here. And let me tell you just a bit about myself before we talk about [[mothers]]. I am not a mother in the sense of the word that you would understand. Even though I had a [[mortal]] life as you are enjoying, I did not have children; I never gave [[birth]] to any other human being in the flesh as you understand motherhood. However, I am a marvelous mother in spirit. I was perhaps what you might call an [[elder]] sibling, a teen-ager, and I had a hovering kind of attitude, much like a hen will have over her chicks. I amassed all the children in the [[neighborhood]], in the [[community]], and they became my charge, my interest. I have, of course, a great appreciation for the [[sibling]] relationship, but that never came into my [[personality]] [[frame of reference]] until after I left the mortal plane and began to experience [[parenting]] again in and through [[47:2 The Probationary Nursery|the nurseries]], and there I encountered others like myself who had not had physical children but who needed an understanding of [[parenting]]. Those others, then, were my siblings. Thus I have a full sense of [[appreciation]] for my brothers and sisters, but again, it was not a [[human]]-based [[frame of reference]].

I think perhaps that these early days of my life, those formative years as a [[human being]], were instrumental in forming my [[personality]] to be that which I am today. You may think of me as a [[story]]-teller with children sitting around me, hanging on me, pulling on my clothing and my hair, and I am with them, on the floor, wiping their noses, straightening their forelocks and babbling along with them in an attempt to [[communicate]] with or without words that divine [[harmony]] that comes from the playfulness of little children, and this is an act I [[engage]] in happily, as it is always in my [[consciousness]] that my elder brother and yours, [[Michael]], is always in our midst, standing nearby, watching as we play, overseeing our [[energies]], and being a part - although a [[quiet]] and unobtrusive pat - of our engagement.

I think perhaps that these early days of my life, those formative years as a [[human being]], were instrumental in forming my [[personality]] to be that which I am today. You may think of me as a [[story]]-teller with children sitting around me, hanging on me, pulling on my clothing and my hair, and I am with them, on the floor, wiping their noses, straightening their forelocks and babbling along with them in an attempt to [[communicate]] with or without words that divine [[harmony]] that comes from the playfulness of little children, and this is an act I [[engage]] in happily, as it is always in my [[consciousness]] that my elder brother and yours, [[Michael]], is always in our midst, standing nearby, watching as we play, overseeing our [[energies]], and being a part - although a [[quiet]] and unobtrusive pat - of our engagement.

===='''''[[Mother Spirit]]''''', '''''[[Motherhood]]''''', '''''[[Gender]]'''''====

===='''''[[Mother Spirit]]''''', '''''[[Motherhood]]''''', '''''[[Gender]]'''''====

I'd like to expand this picture then to incorporate our [[discussion]] of Mother's Day and [[parallel]] that picture that I painted for you of who I am, to the [[relationship]] that exists between [[Nebadonia]], our [[Divine Minister]], and [[Michael]], our Lord. These are our [[parents]]. They are the parents of the celestial helpers. They are, in fact, the parents of the worlds of this [[local universe]]. Together they have plotted and planned their kingdom, their [[domain]], their realm, and they have been overseeing the development of their kingdom, their universe, in the natural [[course]] of their [[existence]]. And so let's look at what it is that [[Mother]] does, what Mother offers, as [[compared]] to what we know about the [[authority]] of the [[Father]] figure, the strength of Dad, the [[power]] plays that are appropriate and natural for the Father figure. There is talk on your world about "men's realm" and "women's realm" and with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_liberation women's liberation] these roles have been upset, upturned, [[disguised]], [[confused]] and rent asunder. And so let's look at the universe and how it's set up and what the roles are of the Eternal Parents, the universe parents of [[Michael]] and [[Nebadonia]].

I'd like to expand this picture then to incorporate our [[discussion]] of Mother's Day and [[parallel]] that picture that I painted for you of who I am, to the [[relationship]] that exists between [[Nebadonia]], our [[Divine Minister]], and [[Michael]], our Lord. These are our [[parents]]. They are the parents of the celestial helpers. They are, in fact, the parents of the worlds of this [[local universe]]. Together they have plotted and planned their kingdom, their [[domain]], their realm, and they have been overseeing the development of their kingdom, their universe, in the natural [[course]] of their [[existence]]. And so let's look at what it is that [[Mother]] does, what Mother offers, as [[compared]] to what we know about the [[authority]] of the [[Father]] figure, the strength of Dad, the [[power]] plays that are appropriate and natural for the Father figure. There is talk on your world about "men's realm" and "women's realm" and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_liberation women's liberation] these roles have been upset, upturned, [[disguised]], [[confused]] and rent asunder. And so let's look at the universe and how it's set up and what the roles are of the Eternal Parents, the universe parents of [[Michael]] and [[Nebadonia]].

Remembering that I am a [[story]]-teller, we can overlook my vague [[recitation]] of what [[your text]] has revealed by indicating that the [[Mother Spirit]] is installed/ ensconced/ interned in [[Salvington]], the capital of the local universe, and that she is a permanent resident therein, that she sends forth her representatives, her many orders of children throughout the universes to speak on her behalf and to act for her in the [[birth]] and nurture of her millions of offspring, her creations - [[morontial]] and [[material]]. Let's throw the floor open and think outloud as to how you can see the Mother's work in her universe.

Remembering that I am a [[story]]-teller, we can overlook my vague [[recitation]] of what [[your text]] has revealed by indicating that the [[Mother Spirit]] is installed/ ensconced/ interned in [[Salvington]], the capital of the local universe, and that she is a permanent resident therein, that she sends forth her representatives, her many orders of children throughout the universes to speak on her behalf and to act for her in the [[birth]] and nurture of her millions of offspring, her creations - [[morontial]] and [[material]]. Let's throw the floor open and think outloud as to how you can see the Mother's work in her universe.

Look around and express how it is that you [[perceive]] the [[essence]] and [[energy]] of the [[Divine Minister]], our Mother indeed, in your daily life, in this setting here, and in all you do. [[Laughter]] is certainly one of the gifts I accredit our Mother with for she has such [[joy]] in her. Her joy stems from knowing who she is and how she serves. Not how she rules, but how she serves. And the natural response in the greater universe of [[service]] is the [[reflection]] of that [[attitude]] and [[goodness]] that is at the heart of the need to be attentive and caring to those you love and who look to you for [[direction]], just as I look at you children here playing on the floor with me, with your fine hair all tousled by the wind and your socks on backwards.

Look around and express how it is that you [[perceive]] the [[essence]] and [[energy]] of the [[Divine Minister]], our Mother indeed, in your daily life, in this setting here, and in all you do. [[Laughter]] is certainly one of the gifts I accredit our Mother with for she has such [[joy]] in her. Her joy stems from knowing who she is and how she serves. Not how she rules, but how she serves. And the natural response in the greater universe of [[service]] is the [[reflection]] of that [[attitude]] and [[goodness]] that is at the heart of the need to be attentive and caring to those you love and who look to you for [[direction]], just as I look at you children here playing on the floor with me, with your fine hair all tousled by the wind and your socks on backwards.

How can I not love you [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals little rascals]? How can Our Mother not adore her creations? When you retain your [[attitude]] of childlikeness, when you continue to look to your [[parents]] for their [[overcare]], you continue to be manageable and adorable. When you think you're too old for Mother's [[attentions]], when you push her aside to show off how big you are and how you don't need her anymore, fussing over you, [[counseling]] you, [[admonishing]] you, you have run aground.

How can I not love you [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rascals little rascals]? How can Our Mother not adore her creations? When you retain your [[attitude]] of childlikeness, when you continue to look to your [[parents]] for their [[overcare]], you continue to be manageable and adorable. When you think you're too old for Mother's [[attentions]], when you push her aside to show off how big you are and how you don't need her anymore, fussing over you, [[counseling]] you, [[admonishing]] you, you have run aground.

Your [[experience]] here may have shown you that it was [[necessary]] for you to cut the cord between you and Mother in order for you to grow up and [[embrace]] the ways of the world, "man's world". But in the spirit realm, the [[truth]] is, Father will always [[share]] his [[throne]] with his Bride. You cannot love one more than the other for they are one. You cannot pay more [[homage]] to the [[authority]] of Father than the ministry of Mother, for they are united.

Your [[experience]] here may have shown you that it was [[necessary]] for you to cut the cord between you and Mother in order for you to grow up and [[embrace]] the ways of the world, "man's world". But in the spirit realm, the [[truth]] is, Father will always [[share]] his [[throne]] with his Bride. You cannot love one more than the other for they are one. You cannot pay more [[homage]] to the [[authority]] of Father than the ministry of Mother, for they are united.

Right now, in my [[minds eye]], my beloved little brothers and sisters, you are only now beginning to learn how to walk and how to talk. Your [[communications]] skills are funny and your best communications are still best conveyed through [[gestures]], like bopping each other on the head or reaching out to [[touch]] that which appears to be different from what you know.

Right now, in my [[minds eye]], my beloved little brothers and sisters, you are only now beginning to learn how to walk and how to talk. Your [[communications]] skills are funny and your best communications are still best conveyed through [[gestures]], like bopping each other on the head or reaching out to [[touch]] that which appears to be different from what you know.

Think of each other as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddler toddlers], even as you [[aspire]] to become [[mature]] and adult, for if you can perceive of the childlike aspects in each other, it will be a natural and innate - shall we say "[[genetic]]" -- disposition for you to adore your brothers and sisters or ignore their antics as mere [[learning]] experiences in the [[art of living]].

Think of each other as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddler toddlers], even as you [[aspire]] to become [[mature]] and adult, for if you can perceive of the childlike aspects in each other, it will be a natural and innate - shall we say "[[genetic]]" -- disposition for you to adore your brothers and sisters or ignore their antics as mere [[learning]] experiences in the [[art of living]].

Mother's work may never be done, but it is not an unpleasant chore. [[Loving]] is never a chore. Caring for each other from that font of [[affection]] which is from [[Paradise]] Source is a never-ending experience in [[expression]]. Let's pause on this note for awhile. I'll be back. [tape turned within seconds of running out] I have another [[story]] for you. That was not me, that was a [[midwayer]].

Mother's work may never be done, but it is not an unpleasant chore. [[Loving]] is never a chore. Caring for each other from that font of [[affection]] which is from [[Paradise]] Source is a never-ending experience in [[expression]]. Let's pause on this note for awhile. I'll be back. [tape turned within seconds of running out] I have another [[story]] for you. That was not me, that was a [[midwayer]].