1999-04-20-A Cog in the Wheel
Butler PA #60
Contents
• 1 Heading
o 1.1 Topic: A Cog in the Wheel
o 1.2 Group: Butler TeaM
• 2 Facilitators
o 2.1 Teacher: Gorman
o 2.2 TR: Gerdean
• 3 Session
o 3.1 Dialogue
o 3.2 Closing
Topic: A Cog in the Wheel
Group: Butler TeaM
Facilitators
Teacher: Gorman, Merium
TR: Gerdean
Session
Dialogue
GORMAN: It is fun to be here with you with your creative hats on. I am having a good time with this assignment. I am a bit of a peeping Tom because I am more curious than perhaps some others who have a circumscribed role. Mine is involving your personal lives to a great extent, not necessarily your spiritual lives or even your .personal lives, but your working existences, and you mortals are a lot of obscure workers. I say obscure because you all are so busy doing so little. Don’t think I meant that as an insult, anybody, but only because I am a bit of a malingerer myself, but only because I have not made hay while the sun was shining more than once and so I recognize my cousins’ proclivities as one like my own. I share this so that you will feel comradely with me.
My work is not with an emphasis on your spiritual nature. I take it for granted that you are striving and that you are doing the best you can with what you’ve got and I’ll let others fret about your soul growth. My work with you will be, as was said, having to do with production of effect/product. I can see that our machine needs some gears rearranged and some grease slathered here and there. What a rusty bag of nuts and bolts you are, when each one of you is such a finely honed tool by itself. The difficulty seems to be a reluctance to permit for a certain intimacy of operation. I call to your mind the cogs in a wheel. Perhaps you are resistant to being a cog in a wheel. I urge you to by-pass that remnant of your bygone days and become enthusiastic about your cooperation and commingling, for that is the way that the gears mesh and begin to function as a working machine. What might you use to grease your machine?
Angus: I’ve got to grease my attitude.
GORMAN: Yes, but now that you are cognizant of the role that attitude plays in allowing yourselves to become enmeshed in an effective ball bearing, what do you think now can pull this mechanism together in a simplistic and elementary way that will bring a sense of cohesion? I have witnessed your delight with eating together and imbibing socially, but you have yet to practice enjoying your work. Herein I would like for you to agree upon a simple exercise, one which is related to your sense of responsibility or maintenance, a very elementary deed, indeed, and consciously, laughingly, joyously, giddily even, applying yourself to the ridiculous task, just to prove to yourselves you can have fun while you work.
When you have experienced, experientially realized that simple satisfaction, you can allow yourself then to open the door wider to greater result. I will let you think about something to do for in the very process of making a decision to that effect will be adjusting your attitude, altering your approach, practicing your intent and greasing the wheels of cooperation that will bring about effective teamwork.
I won’t keep you long this evening, but I wanted to ask, before we call it a day, if anyone here has any courageous questions as to your effectiveness this week in essaying to follow through with our lessons so far and our progress to date.
Angus: How do I begin to take things so personally?
MERIUM: I will speak for your personal teacher, with your permission.
Angus: You have my permission.
MERIUM: Sensitivity is a two-edged sword. It is a gift to be cherished, for your sensitivity to see nuances that the denser minded cannot perceive. In due course this sensitivity will supremely embellish your skills as a fisher of men, but until such time as you understand the nature of sensitivity in terms of your personality, you will continue to be tripped by that same sensitivity which can be internalized and render you weakened by your interpretation of that which has been received by you so personally as to affect your strength. I speak of your strength as your integrity and your qualities of reality inherent as a son of God, and those are the strengths which will weigh toward the development of that sensitivity such that your Father is going to benefit by it. The task at hand, my son, is to recognize your sensitivity and understand that as it is personalized, it is leading you to an opportunity to will your understanding of truth toward that which gives you your true identity. Does that answer?
Angus: It’s an amazing answer. I hesitated to ask how. But that helps explain everything. It makes me feel and understand it a lot more. For the past few years I have been studying one of the entities (Napoleon Hill was the gentleman’s name) who can communicate with entities; he said the universe is just out there waiting to help us if we set this up, and I was just wondering if indeed that is part of the role that you have, Gorman. You said it wasn’t necessarily spiritual, but more on the line of life production and things, and I’m wondering if that’s the kind of thing that Napoleon Hill was referring to.
GORMAN: I don’t want to be misunderstood. I have to first state that my underlying purpose is as spiritual as yours, as Tomas’, as Michael’s, as anyone’s. I have made my decisions and am accordingly assured ascension along with you, and so I have that in common with you as an a priori. But we midwayers have been around a long time and perhaps forget that it’s new to you, and we have been watching it all along. I am working with you in a unit context, but that is not necessarily my sole function. For all this time — well, not all this time but for quite some time — we have all been applying ourselves toward attempts at contact with the advanced mortals of the realm who would make good “guinea pigs” to see if the transmitting process would be falling upon a fertile field and doing more good than harm. And so we have attained this apex that has allowed for the doors to open and the show to go on. And so now we can go on to our next phase of operation.
Now that we have got your attention, we need to be about The Father’s Business in which different people do different things. Your minds are sufficiently compatible that we have been inducted by and through the auspices of the social architects to create a morontia functioning unit here while you are all still in the flesh. We are practicing advanced crafts that will become the norm in a relatively short time. Be assured we are snowballing now, even though it doesn’t appear to be from your vantage point, but we have been around a long time and can see the acceleration taking place. You can tune into my broadcast anytime you like. I am enchanted with my assignment with you all and have great sympathy with the teachers who have already been working effectively with you for such a long time – your time frame. It is a challenge, indeed, and so don’t feel lonely. You are not the only ones learning new things.
Closing
GORMAN: Well, ground crew, you have our best wishes in attempting to find a simple chore to apply yourselves to with consciousness of purpose. When you find it works, savor it, appreciate the effects of the universe and thank Father for including you in the game plan. Then embrace your fellows in delight of the process and pick another job to do, perhaps a little more challenging so that you can begin to test your metal and the strength and capabilities of this great machine we are going to use to feed the sheep. See you later!
