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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

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===='''''[[Dialogue]]'''''====

It is my turn to address your [[wonderful]] gathering this evening. We have been [[eagerly]] [[listening]] to your [[conversations]], to your supportive, loving energies, [[expressed]] through [[words]] to each other. You are [[becoming]] as a finely tuned instrument. Your harmonics are [[pure]]. The overtones are ringing [[clearly]]. The octaves are in harmony. Therefore your music is beginning to [[echo]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_spheres songs of the spheres]. My friends, do not be put off by my apparently flowery language for this is a [[morontial]] school and your awareness [[transcends]] the material realm. Even though we are based on [[Urantia]] you are in the [[Melchizedek University]]. That is why your [[progress]] is quite astounding to you at times. This is serious business that we are about. We are not playing [[egocentric]] [[games]] with money passing under the table. This is the rest of your [[life]] we are dealing with.

It is my turn to address your [[wonderful]] gathering this evening. We have been [[eagerly]] [[listening]] to your [[conversations]], to your supportive, loving energies, [[expressed]] through [[words]] to each other. You are [[becoming]] as a finely tuned instrument. Your harmonics are [[pure]]. The overtones are ringing [[clearly]]. The octaves are in harmony. Therefore your music is beginning to [[echo]] the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_spheres songs of the spheres]. My friends, do not be put off by my apparently flowery language for this is a [[morontial]] school and your awareness [[transcends]] the material realm. Even though we are based on [[Urantia]] you are in the [[Melchizedek University]]. That is why your [[progress]] is quite astounding to you at times. This is serious business that we are about. We are not playing [[egocentric]] [[games]] with money passing under the table. This is the rest of your [[life]] we are dealing with.

At the same time, that is serious, it is also [[joyful]]. I have not come this evening to impose another [[exercise]] upon you for your have of your own [[freewill]] engaged in a promising, deliberate, and effective program of spiritual calisthenics of personal [[interaction]] which has overtones of eternal [[value]] and worth. Lest you think that I have given you the stamp of approval that states that you have arrived at [[perfection]], be [[assured]], of course, that this is not the case as we have not reached the [[portals]] of [[Paradise]] yet. But I am speaking for myself and the others in our [[Teaching Corps]] when I say that this group and others likewise have exceeded our [[expectations]]. The [[progress]] is greater than we expected even though we were appraised that this was very [[experimental]]. The [[pessimists]] among us, if that is the proper way to state it, were of the [[opinion]] that things would move much more slowly, whereas some of us, who are [[perceived]] as on the wild side, were not quite as taken back by the [[enthusiasm]] which as been displayed. I have no lesson tonight to give.

At the same time, that is serious, it is also [[joyful]]. I have not come this evening to impose another [[exercise]] upon you for your have of your own [[freewill]] engaged in a promising, deliberate, and effective program of spiritual calisthenics of personal [[interaction]] which has overtones of eternal [[value]] and worth. Lest you think that I have given you the stamp of approval that states that you have arrived at [[perfection]], be [[assured]], of course, that this is not the case as we have not reached the [[portals]] of [[Paradise]] yet. But I am speaking for myself and the others in our [[Teaching Corps]] when I say that this group and others likewise have exceeded our [[expectations]]. The [[progress]] is greater than we expected even though we were appraised that this was very [[experimental]]. The [[pessimists]] among us, if that is the proper way to state it, were of the [[opinion]] that things would move much more slowly, whereas some of us, who are [[perceived]] as on the wild side, were not quite as taken back by the [[enthusiasm]] which as been displayed. I have no lesson tonight to give.

Virginia: No. I think the [[course]] has been spent. Thank you.

Virginia: No. I think the [[course]] has been spent. Thank you.

Daniel: Then if you wish me not to I won't [[proceed]] too much further, but I feel that I have not [[satisfied]] your initial concern. You said earlier that it is not [[mental]], that illness is not caused by ones mental state completely and that one should not feel totally [[guilty]] or [[responsible]] for having physical illness occur. With these words I concur fully for there is more than your [[science]] [[understands]] going on. Your body is an incredible [[machine]] that fights off constant [[attacks]] from very real physical [[entities]], [[viruses]], [[bacteria]] and some other things that you don't yet know about. When stress adds to the [[pressure]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system immune system] sometimes cannot cope. But many things determine this, including [[heredity]], [[lifestyle]] [[habits]], and things that we ourselves, who are [[morontial]] beings, don't fully understand. We have not been apprised of all the details that the [[Life Carriers]] have planned for this [[experimental planet]], and ever they are [[surprised]] at some of the evolutionary outcomes to the [[genetic engineering]]. Things are not entirely under their [[control]] either. And so I can tell you that, as it says in the [[Urantia Book]], when praying for help first you should do all you know how to do to address the [[problem]], and then ask for help when there has been the [[necessary]] homework done. And now I will cease my [[commentary]].

Daniel: Then if you wish me not to I won't [[proceed]] too much further, but I feel that I have not [[satisfied]] your initial concern. You said earlier that it is not [[mental]], that illness is not caused by ones mental state completely and that one should not feel totally [[guilty]] or [[responsible]] for having physical illness occur. With these words I concur fully for there is more than your [[science]] [[understands]] going on. Your body is an incredible [[machine]] that fights off constant [[attacks]] from very real physical [[entities]], [[viruses]], [[bacteria]] and some other things that you don't yet know about. When stress adds to the [[pressure]] the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system immune system] sometimes cannot cope. But many things determine this, including [[heredity]], [[lifestyle]] [[habits]], and things that we ourselves, who are [[morontial]] beings, don't fully understand. We have not been apprised of all the details that the [[Life Carriers]] have planned for this [[experimental planet]], and ever they are [[surprised]] at some of the evolutionary outcomes to the [[genetic engineering]]. Things are not entirely under their [[control]] either. And so I can tell you that, as it says in the [[Urantia Book]], when praying for help first you should do all you know how to do to address the [[problem]], and then ask for help when there has been the [[necessary]] homework done. And now I will cease my [[commentary]].

Virginia: Thank you, Daniel.

Virginia: Thank you, Daniel.

Lorenzo: This is true Ken, many times.

Lorenzo: This is true Ken, many times.

Lorenzo: It was not for want of understanding that I shared these, but there has been a [[distortion]] in regards to this teaching at times in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religion history of religion] on [[this planet]]. I speak of advanced religion on this planet, where [[service]] and [[worship]] have been seen as [[antagonistic]], where the person who spends too much time in worship is regarded as other worldly, [[fascinated]] with pie in the sky, and not willing to get their hands dirty in the everyday work of the world, and the person who has exulted [[service]] as the most important thing has therefore at times put too little [[value]] on [[worship]]. So that's why, for the record, I [[desired]] to have these thoughts stated. That is it, thank you.

Lorenzo: It was not for want of understanding that I shared these, but there has been a [[distortion]] in regards to this teaching at times in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religion history of religion] on [[this planet]]. I speak of advanced religion on this planet, where [[service]] and [[worship]] have been seen as [[antagonistic]], where the person who spends too much time in worship is regarded as other worldly, [[fascinated]] with pie in the sky, and not willing to get their hands dirty in the everyday work of the world, and the person who has exulted [[service]] as the most important thing has therefore at times put too little [[value]] on [[worship]]. So that's why, for the record, I [[desired]] to have these thoughts stated. That is it, thank you.

Ken: Not yet. (Much group [[laughter]].) You stated [[worship]] and [[service]] and two items. Generally there are three. Is there a third? I'm not playing the numbers game. Sorry, but there is a close [[relationship]].

Ken: Not yet. (Much group [[laughter]].) You stated [[worship]] and [[service]] and two items. Generally there are three. Is there a third? I'm not playing the numbers game. Sorry, but there is a close [[relationship]].