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DATE: March 11, 1997

 

 

 

 

TOMAS: Good evening. I am Tomas. There are many of us here this evening. Since there appears to be no visible structure format, it fell upon me to greet you, which I am always glad to do, and to perhaps bring this configuration into some degree of focus.

TOMAS: Good evening. I am Tomas. There are many of us here this evening. Since there appears to be no visible structure format, it fell upon me to greet you, which I am always glad to do, and to perhaps bring this configuration into some degree of focus.

Hunnah: I have a question. Anne was talking with me just before you checked in and she said, "I would really like to know my spiritual name." And I asked her about her background and we got interrupted. Because of my years of experience in my spiritual journey, it has occurred to me that there isn't any required background and any required amount of reading that, . .. that that is a concept we need to outgrow; that so much work has been done that it's being allowed to step into student acceptance. Would you like to comment? I think maybe I've gone far enough to get you going.

Hunnah: I have a question. Anne was talking with me just before you checked in and she said, "I would really like to know my spiritual name." And I asked her about her background and we got interrupted. Because of my years of experience in my spiritual journey, it has occurred to me that there isn't any required background and any required amount of reading that, . .. that that is a concept we need to outgrow; that so much work has been done that it's being allowed to step into student acceptance. Would you like to comment? I think maybe I've gone far enough to get you going.

 

TOMAS: I will step in happily, although I am not certain what I am stepping into there, for you did bring up more than one subject. Your initial recitation had to do with Anne desiring a spiritual name and I will respond to Anne in that context, and I will give her an answer that you have already heard, but for your benefit, Anne, I will tell you that different teachers have different approaches to this issue of divulging spirit names, and I am inclined to disallow reaching in to the files to find it, for I have found it more effective when you develop your own identity sufficiently that I recognize you and see you and your name is apparent to me by your personality.

TOMAS: I will step in happily, although I am not certain what I am stepping into there, for you did bring up more than one subject. Your initial recitation had to do with Anne desiring a spiritual name and I will respond to Anne in that context, and I will give her an answer that you have already heard, but for your benefit, Anne, I will tell you that different teachers have different approaches to this issue of divulging spirit names, and I am inclined to disallow reaching in to the files to find it, for I have found it more effective when you develop your own identity sufficiently that I recognize you and see you and your name is apparent to me by your personality.

Remember, too, that "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." In the spirit we are all equal, and so while we may say, "Anne is new to us," she is one with us; and those of you who have been around awhile, are also one of us. What have I overlooked?

Remember, too, that "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." In the spirit we are all equal, and so while we may say, "Anne is new to us," she is one with us; and those of you who have been around awhile, are also one of us. What have I overlooked?

 

Hunnah: You always do it right. But I thought that it was a good reminder when you said that we had the cart before the horse here; we give the name . .. Well, I just like what you had to say about getting acquainted with what we really have, to express it and then naming it. I like that.

Hunnah: You always do it right. But I thought that it was a good reminder when you said that we had the cart before the horse here; we give the name . .. Well, I just like what you had to say about getting acquainted with what we really have, to express it and then naming it. I like that.

This is very satisfying. Do you wish to close?

This is very satisfying. Do you wish to close?

 

TOMAS: I am Tomas and I am here for our concluding moments. It has truly been a feast. It is wonderful for us to behold Merium flourish in her new garden. I will not give her away, however, for I hold her close to me as my co-chair person. I guess I am feeling somewhat of an emotional condition known as possessiveness and jealousy, for she has already endeared herself to me so fully, but this is also by way of showing me what lessons there are to be learned in the new configuration of two teachers in the place of one, for where there is two, there are issues that were not there when one stood alone. And so it is with the human condition and that which we deal with in the next leg of the journey together in our community here.

TOMAS: I am Tomas and I am here for our concluding moments. It has truly been a feast. It is wonderful for us to behold Merium flourish in her new garden. I will not give her away, however, for I hold her close to me as my co-chair person. I guess I am feeling somewhat of an emotional condition known as possessiveness and jealousy, for she has already endeared herself to me so fully, but this is also by way of showing me what lessons there are to be learned in the new configuration of two teachers in the place of one, for where there is two, there are issues that were not there when one stood alone. And so it is with the human condition and that which we deal with in the next leg of the journey together in our community here.

TOMAS: Amen. And farewell.

TOMAS: Amen. And farewell.