1998-12-29-Intellectual Peace

Session

Opening

TOMAS: Good evening, loyal flock and gracious visitors. How wonderful to be here with you this evening in your divine repose and in your receptivity to fraternal love and divine guidance. Joyous daughters, you have given us a great gift by your composure and your adoration of that which has been our pleasure to behold in you, that is, your appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness as it is perceived and as it is in harmony with you, kindred spirits, sisters, comrades, children of God. Merium and I are here and Merium would like to greet you before I commence with my lesson, if you will. One moment, please.

MERIUM: I am here, my daughters. I am smiling, as you can tell not from the T/R but from your understanding of me as a joyous and radiant child of God much like yourselves and when we are in good humor, you know we are radiant, even when we are grumbling we are grumbling in an acknowledgment of an ideal, an aspiration of a view of perfection which is just around the corner. Your enthusiasm for your path is contagious. We have observed you in your approach to your Christmas holiday in fascination, and have taken off our hats to you for your aplomb in handling the emotional tares and the confusions of your environments. Now that we have acknowledged the birth of Jesus in our own lives and have set out on the path which we see before us, we rejoice in faith of the fact of the Way-shower who will show us the way indeed. We hear the music of your evolution and your own revelation of truth, inwardly and as it expresses itself in your realm. The angels sing. I will be here throughout the evening, but I will now turn the microphone back to Tomas who would speak a few words to you before we commence with our customary camaraderie at large.

Lesson

TOMAS: Again, I am Tomas, and I am acting on behalf of our Master Michael when I acknowledge the return of Laureenia and the visit from our gracious daughter known as Lillian and mother of our own Evangel. Greetings all of you and thank you for your studies earlier. It indeed gives me a springboard for my lesson to you this evening. I will speak to you momentarily about the divine gift of intellectual peace. As you know truth, as you feel it in your heart, as you recognize truth through the Spirit of Truth, as it harmonizes in your soul, as it becomes so pure and clear as to transcend human knowledge, you have found a source of unending inspiration. It is the Source within which is the source of this intellectual peace. The mind, the gift of the Infinite Spirit, is the apex of intellectual peace. You know that you know. What you know through the divine gift, you know in your being of beings. It is beyond books, beyond theory, beyond sects, beyond interpretation. It is. It is. And that is what enabled our Master, when he was here on this world, to be so focused that he was able to inherently and automatically with every conversation and with every individual around to that very fundamental reality, for it was the reality which was the Source of all that he knew, all that he was, and all that he would be. When we know our Infinite Source, we look to that Source for the living water.

The fluid truth which we will spout from our lips when we are touched to preach and teach the gospel of Jesus as he taught it when he walked upon Urantia. Witness in your reading this evening how he was able in each case and with each individual to bring to their mind, a focus, a nugget, a gem of living truth which spoke to them and which resounded within their own kernel/core/source who they knew themselves to be.

And this is such a blessing, such a skill, such an art, such a gift of divine spirit. Remember too, in simple terms, that Jesus often would go to a person and draw them out by asking them questions. It was not that he could read their minds any more than you can read the minds of your peers, but in order to be friendly you must go to them and say, "What interests you? What are you about? What is your work? Who are you? And how to you approach life?" and in this way you find out about them and then you may return your focus to your Source in order that you may pour forth living water upon the soil of your friendship with this new person who has been presented to you as a fellow as you pass by.

Any individual is an opportunity to sing the praises of the First Source and Center, to bring them around to an appreciation of their very being by and through the Creator of us all, an occasion to bring a soothing moment to their troubled countenance by acknowledging their indwelling spirit and the peace that dwells therein. It gives me great pleasure to be with you each this evening and it would give me further pleasure to be involved individually with you each in so far as we may share in this living water in a more direct and communal fashion. I therefore open the floor to you, my lovely friends, for your input, commentary,... questions?

Dialogue

RACHEL: Hi, Tomas!

TOMAS: Good evening, my darling Rachel. How are you this evening?

RACHEL: I'm doing better!

TOMAS: Indeed you are. You are affirming your way all the way to Paradise, and in your affirmations you are actualizing. How exciting!

RACHEL: It is! I'm starting to feel free!

TOMAS: You are beginning to prance.

RACHEL: (Laughing) Well, not quite yet.

TOMAS: It is good, however, to see that you are high stepping.

RACHEL: Well, it's a good lesson to learn. A good lesson to learn, getting rid of your fears. I had no idea I was so fearful.

TOMAS: Most people do not.

RACHEL: I just wish I didn't throw such a temper tantrum about it.

TOMAS: You are a child.

RACHEL: (Laughing) Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Nobody likes their world disrupted.

TOMAS: See yourself as a growing child and have patience with your outbursts. You are at least willing to see your outbursts and grow therefrom. For now, daughter, pat yourself on the head and give yourself a push on the behind and go for it.

RACHEL: Get out there and reach out, huh?

TOMAS: Yes.

RACHEL: And the Father will take care of the rest?

TOMAS: You are asking me? You gave ME the testimony!

RACHEL: The Father WILL take care of the rest.

TOMAS: You and He are now in a co-creative process, remember.

RACHEL: Right.

TOMAS: You have found a God with whom you can do business.

RACHEL: Right.

TOMAS: This is a personal relationship that reaches into the core of you. It involves the development of your very own being, your own immortal soul and certainly our Father wants to bring up his precious child into realms of being able to function happily and gloriously on behalf of all that is true and beautiful and good for you and for your family members throughout the vast cosmos of time and space.

RACHEL: It is good to hear that I am growing.

TOMAS: It is better than the alternative.

RACHEL: Living in quivering fear. I've been living in fear for ages, Tomas.

TOMAS: You are not alone, my child. Even now you are surrounded by those who clutch fear to them as if it were a blanket, a security blanket, and they are reluctant to allow the fear to fall away for in doing so they would have to be in the cold, naked space of faith. It is a courageous step to walk in faith, and then you find you are not naked, not cold, but clothed in the raiment of grace, covered by His love, enshrouded, enveloped, encased in His protection.

RACHEL: Such a loving Father. It amazes me how He gives me time to come to grips with the things I need to come to grips with, you know?

TOMAS: It is indeed true He is a loving God. He is love itself. It is a major break-through when you realize this, that He is love in a manner which transcends and supercedes earlier perceptions of what love is.

RACHEL: And love actually is making your children face their fears.

TOMAS: Allowing your children to face life. Indeed we have all experienced our tribulations and adversities, and they are always of a varied nature, for if they were all the same all the time we would become perhaps blaze about our Creator, but the infinite variety of life experiences and lessons are such an unfolding, and so impressive are the results of our own spiritual growth, we attain an appreciation such that we eagerly go toward the next growing experience, understanding that in this process we have somehow, thanks to God, become more like Him. In order to become more godlike, of course, we must relinquish our impression of ourselves, in order that it may be made more perfect in His image rather than in ours. It is a constant surprise, then, to see how God reveals himself to us, and even IN us.

RACHEL: It's like a washing machine inside. (Laughter) It is! It's constantly agitating and cleaning you out. I kind of like that analogy because it's always shaking you up, you know? Just like the agitator.

LAUREENIA: As soon as He cleans you out, He fills you up again.

RACHEL: Yep. A new supply of living water.

TOMAS: I am delighted to see JoniElla emerge as a strong woman. It has not been that long before I remember a timid soul, and behold we are seeing revealed a character-imbued woman developing and growing and striding forward in strength and confidence, no longer trembling in fear and paralysis of will. This, my children, is a reward from your cosmic problem solving efforts, from your attempts to understand true reality. Indeed, true religion. Your own personal relationship with your God, our Father. He strengthens and vivifies you in your noble attempts to become more like him, and to seek to do His will in your life and to foster his reflection of reality in your fellows; and therefore the more you emerge from paralysis and fear the more strengthened you become. You have grown your own foundation. You have grown your own faith, and this faith that you have grown has been made real by your very efforts. You have learned to trust in that which is trustworthy. In response then, you will be entrusted, and now we enter upon yet another level of growth and learning and unfolding.

You have been forthright, of a certainty and you have been forged ahead, taking the spiritual kingdom by assault and gaining ground in your foundation of faith also. All of you are doing well, very well. I am giving myself a good mark for this season's teaching. Your growth reflects that I have done a good job as well!

RACHEL: You always do a good job, Tomas.

TOMAS: It is, however, always very gladsome when I am able to perceive your good job and allow that we together have advanced spirit reality. It is my supreme pleasure to be able to serve Machiventa and Michael in this fashion, and to serve you as well. What a wonderful family we have in the spirit, and it continues to envelop us in even greater folds of grace and glory in our efforts at unfolding all our Father would have us know and do and be. His will be done. I like to exalt Our Eternal Parents and our good works.

It is always of value to assess our growth and our goals, but always it is of benefit to return to the field and to bring our understanding of our Father unto the awareness of His children who remain in darkness, who continue under the illusions of the material existence, and in the catacombs of fear. My children I urge you to remember your Source and the truth of the gift of the divine spirit, intellectual peace -- intellectual peace as it hails all the way from Paradise, for in that you will be able to be of service and minister to your brethren as you pass by in ways that will enable you to serve the most humble and simple among you, the most fear-ridden and the most guilt- stricken, those who feel unworthy and those who are angry, those who are lost and confused and betrayed. Help to draw them out and help to bestow upon them an appreciation for your genuine interest in their well-being, for when you see that you can be one with your brethren, they can see that they have, through you, a reflection of your greater Reality, that which you have given yourself to in service of.

RACHEL: Speaking of being of service, when other people are being antagonistic towards me, can I see it as . . is it service to the Father to not get embroiled in that, to just refuse to do it? Is that a service to that person who is trying to bring you into that bad energy?

TOMAS: Indeed you have asked a complicated question and I cannot give you a simple answer. It will depend upon your circumstances and each circumstance is different, depending upon the configuration of the moment, for those who are confused or angry or unstable, and each moment they may be triggered by another fear, another anger, another anxiety, another attack, and sometimes you can be effective by following a thread of truth all the way to the culmination of pure truth and these are wonderful growing experiences in practice and in receipt of truth, but many times it is an opportunity only to engage in a battle of will.

RACHEL: Yeah.

TOMAS: If it is not falling on fertile soil, it is rather pointless to try. Now! This is not to say that it cannot be effective to poignantly and purposively plant that seed in that opening which has abruptly and anxiously created an aperture. Perhaps, for example, in your assertive response to your earth father's announcement to you, you may have been able to effect a growth opportunity, and yet you will not know until the seed sprouts, and you may never see it in your own life because frankly it is very difficult in your culture in this day and age to bring your own family into light and life. Michael spoke of this when he was here, about the prophet is not known in his own country, and yet you have stood your ground against your perpetrator and you have thus strengthened your resolve and your commitment to serve the Father in the face of your mortal father's insistence that what you opt to follow is not as real as he is. He has been given to understand now, in no uncertain terms, that you are following a path of faith that supercedes his.

RACHEL: Yes.

Closing

TOMAS: It is a very difficult thing for earth fathers to lose control, to relinquish authority over that which he has created, over that which has given him great pleasure, even when he finds himself embroiled in criticizing and finding fault, because this in many cases is his own reflection of his own expectations of himself in and through that which he has created. You have said I will follow the Father in heaven and he has heard your conviction. Perhaps, Rachel, perhaps in that most explicit and poignant retort/response you were able to plant in him a seed that will enable him now to relinquish his control and give you up to the Father, and if he can do that, then he has to acknowledge the Father's existence in order to even swallow the sentence you gave him, the seed you have planted, but he opened up he hard crack of his heart, his earth, in order to receive that seed -- not knowing that you had the strength, the power and the conviction to insert that very powerful seed within his own soul. Now, these situations are all different, so when you ask about difficult moments, I cannot say that that situation is true for every situation. Sometimes people just like to argue, and in that case you would indeed be casting your pearls before swine, but this is another example of how it is that the divine Spirit's gift of intellectual peace can give you that knowledge, that understanding, that great faith that will allow you, given that moment, the will to open your mouth and let His will be done. Not your will, but His will be done, and my dear, I see it growing more and more in you every day that it is your will that His will be done. And so we grow. And so the Father is glorified.

RACHEL: Thank you, Tomas. I hadn't thought of it that way.

TOMAS: You are welcome, daughter.