2004-12-02. Finding God Within Others
Lightline #39
Topic: Finding God Within Others
Group: Lightline TeaM
Teacher: Tomas
TR: Gerdean
Opening
TOMAS: Father God, we worship You. We touch You and your presence is magic to our senses, soothing and confidence building. We attribute You, dear Father, as the Source of our power, and trust in Your care for we are also weak. Come into our consciousness and shine Your light upon us, that we can see better, that we can know better how to bring about Your precious kingdom. What can we do to serve, dear Father?
This is Tomas, praying on our behalf, for we seek to do His will. Welcome, students and children, brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors, coworkers in this mighty mission of Michael’s to introduce a new reality to Urantia. Although our efforts are notable, it is also apparent that our efforts must be unceasing, for these are such exciting times, so tumultuous and fast paced. There are so many menus afoot. Agendas abound, opinions echo and constant stress and strife are part of the collective consciousness.
Lesson
What a privilege it is to know our place in the kingdom, that we are indeed embraced and loved and cherished for who we are, what we do, simply by being. Because when we are God’s, when we have given ourselves to Him, He tends to our needs, if we but listen. And this, indeed, is the point we have stressed from the beginning.
The world is too much with you. It is difficult to get footing and keep your bearings when all around you the sea of life is roiling with turbulence. There are those who are called to go into that storm, and there are those, too, who are called to be within the eye of the hurricane, to be the calm, to be the anchor. There are those who are called to teach and to preach and to reach. You are all necessary, all needed in the scheme of things to advance humanity forward.
I’ll take the liberty of starting off our conversation this evening by discussing a bit further this power I referenced. You are taught in the text to be mindful of the presence of God, not only within yourself, but within your fellows. Learn to recognize God’s presence in others. This is presented to you in the text, and your mind captures that thought. But it has been germinating. Now let us stir the dirt around the concept, that it might begin to sprout life.
This is the key to the kingdom: having the Father’s power all around you, as you can see it in your fellows. The strife occurs when He is not apparent. When He is not apparent, there is no mooring, no stable place, no security. And thus the anxiety accelerates until such time as it becomes a hum, like the drone of airplanes going overhead that compels your attention, and this is not conducive to peaceful harmony within yourself and with your fellows.
How do you find God within others? You know. Again, there is a fragment of God within each of us. We are all a part of the universe, yes, the energy which is eternal, and regardless of our path, will be contributed to the evolution of the Supreme. Thus energy is very useful in that context, but the idea of the personality of God is that which makes God mine and yours and ours. It’s the personal element, and so you can find God in your fellows by the personal element of divinity.
And how is that to be shown, known? By their fruits they shall be known. What does that mean, “By their fruits they shall be known”? How do they treat you? How do people treat you? How do you feel when you have been engaged with them in discourse, or commerce? Be aware of your relationship with other people. Be conscious of the fact of their reality. Ask the God within them to respond to the God within you.
The Adjusters are able to communicate, you know; they are inter-related, as they are so close to God. They are of God. They are God, as far as our purposes are concerned. Here now we are looking at the potential power of knowing the Father, of knowing the Father’s love. This is what we are called to demonstrate and respond to. This is the true power.
You have the power to conscious-ize other human beings. You have the power to connect with their God fragment in such a way as they will be forced to recognize your power. They will be forced to recognize something within them. Those who are God-conscious, children of God, responsive, those who are our friends and allies, are easy to recognize. They are eager to show you their goodness. But there are those many who are not interested. They are more interested in the transaction or their agenda or . .. Leave them alone. They are not open.
As you practice this awareness of God in your fellows, you will find you truly have no enemies. Those who do not see you (and) do not see the Father in you, will go their way until their need for divine embrace overpowers them. Recognize your limitations and thus put your power to better use.
Discuss with me. This ability for us to communicate has been established not only that I pour out upon you the benefit of my experience, but that I hear of yours and share in your path as well. I observe many of your social interactions and the general happenings in the immediate neighborhood of the Teaching Mission and the groups tentacles out into the culture. I notice, too, how they are being woven into an energetic sense of Deity that is easy to relate to and which lacks theology and cosmology, thus rendering it much simpler to practice.
It is very much like “a stillness love-in” when you companion those souls which are so precious as to delight in the light of Deity even without the intellectual understanding so many of you are privy to. How precious they are! How innocent and vulnerable. But, of course, as all of you on this planet, the background is there of cunning and potential evil. That is another reason to be mindful of the presence of God — in order to appreciate and enjoy the presence of God in your peers, as well as in your churches (which is a little more difficult if there is a great stress made on the academics of the religion). But those who exalt the Lord and sing his praises are lovely to behold and enjoyable to experience.
The love of the Father touches all of these people. The community of believers on Urantia is very large! I know you tend to see your religion as a unique experience and one which you share with a few other people, but the truth is the love of God is consciously applying itself to all mankind, to whatever extent human will allows that influence. For all those many that you are unable to touch, those in whom you cannot feel the Father Fragment for it is held captive, be merciful. Fight them not. But pray consciously and specifically for what it is you think ails them, and ask God to heal that sickness.
Part of your power is recognizing your insight, your perspective, your perception as having value. It has value because you are value. This is one of the gifts we receive in knowing Our Father. We become more assured in ourselves because we respect and honor our Source of being. To be afraid of God gives you permission to be afraid of yourself, and if you fear yourself, how can you be at home with yourself? How can you be the best you can be – creative and free?
The lights are coming on. Even as it appears the darkness is looming. And it is. But it need not affect you. You need not become embroiled. Use your power to bond together with those values that are enduring and that bring peace, that nurture the spirit, and support the body.
I am not going to talk further in a monologue. Come now. Engage with me.
Dialogue
KELLY: Tomas, I have a question. When you were speaking about us making an effort to relate to the God within another person, does my effort to connect with the God within another person help them spiritually? Does it help them connect with their God fragment?
TOMAS: Yes, of course. This is why you are urged to go out among them, because you can affect everyone as you pass by. And this is the key to the kingdom we have been discussing and the power that you have inherent within you. And this is what Jesus used as he went around engaging with people as the son of man.
You know when you engage with people on a heart level. Let us say it is Christmas and the air is saturated with Jingle Bells and holly. Everyone in the area is overcome with the good will toward men that Christmas brings. While this may be interpreted as a spiritual condition, it is really an emotional state of being brought on by an acceptance of kinship. But you know the feeling of well-being. That is not what I am talking about.
You also know the camaraderie that you have with your buddies, your girlfriends, your playmates. You can let your hair down and be yourself and guffaw and be goofy and laugh, and this is a good connection between people, between the human spirits. But that is not what I am talking about.
The power that lies deep within you in the Adjuster, that yearns to become one with your personality, has that quality in it that you will release in your relationships with those you encounter as you pass by, when and as you are willing and able to follow through, and to the degree that you are currently able to follow through.
I know that you have experienced this, if inadvertently. Yes, you have this ability. It will require practice. And yet it is not something you artificially don, like a cape or a hat. The spirit comes from inside. The spirit stands alone. As you are conscious of it, it is alive in you, and you are carrying it into your environment. Now, those many, many people who have a convention around a religious theology have a feeling of godliness, but not godlikeness. These are what many of you might call pious, religious, or self-righteous. And these are good people, God’s children, indeed. They may be content there, but there are those, too, who would go that one step farther into a revelation about God that would enlarge their existence.
That is what I would call a fish who might nibble on my bait. Always be ready for the big fish. This is the joy of fishers of men, to catch the big one. But any fish is a good catch. You just need to be ready.
STUDENT: Hello, Tomas.
TOMAS: Hello.
STUDENT: How does one juxtapose love for all with the patriarchal nature of all religions on this planet? How do we combine male, female, child into one loving unit?
TOMAS: You rather need to abandon all ideas of uniqueness or separation. You will need to stand back and assume a somewhat farther view than up close and personal. To love humanity as a whole is inhuman; it’s superhuman. Only the human would attempt to love all humanity in its myriad differences. But you know something of this subject. Tell me something!
STUDENT: I cannot intellectually or spiritually feel connected unless the patriarchal nature, the heavy male influence of world religions, is rectified against the hypocrisy of it all. Otherwise I am just a flapping fish in search.
TOMAS: Alright then, let’s be more pragmatic. If you don’t want to transcend, but want to be specific, then you need to apply your power effectively among like-minded fellows in order to build a power bloc, for as you combine forces with others, you become more powerful, even exponentially powerful, and they will need to continue to, for a while longer, because humanity is … and as long as you are human, you will maintain the elements of the human animal as well as the divine aspects, although they will not be manifested as hostile or aggressive as you know it can be.
As man advances and learns to work with other men for a common cause, women are in this culture, on this planet, still handicapped – grossly handicapped – by the prevailing conditions, however they are not without their own power, and together they are able to create as great a vortex of energy toward a purpose as men are. The next step of course would be for men and women to co-administrate, but alas, it is still a social conundrum that men and women compete, which reduces the effectiveness of their ability to work together toward the greater good.
STUDENT: The advice of creating power blocs that you gave me earlier is the conundrum, and if we strive not to compete.
TOMAS: Find those with whom you have the essentials in common. Focus on what you have in common and bond on that point. As you are spirit led or spirit dominated, as you are altruistic and seek the best for all mankind today, tomorrow and forever, you will no doubt be assisted in your efforts, inasmuch as all of us in the unseen realm engaged in this Correcting Time Era, are eager to help be instructive, supportive or, in fact, manipulate the material environment so as to make it possible.
It is a tremendous future we have ahead if and when you can work more effectively with each other. If and as you see a power block that you find is standing in the way of the greater reality, you may be assured there will be others who think similarly, who would be happy to uphold your position. There are differences between each individual. Even those who have a great deal in common are still cursed with many unique differences. This is always going to be the case because no two are alike, and this is the beauty of creation. But only a narrow view would find differences disturbing. Of course there are differences. That’s variety! To be effective, focus on that which you have in common. This is unity of purpose. Unity of purpose is what you are looking for.
“Who is going to define the purpose” is the next question. How is the purpose going to be defined? Unless you have another question, which I’m perfectly willing to listen to.
MARTY: Teacher Tomas, this is Marty. I would just like to refer to the power blocs that you speak of as movements. It works better for me to think of it that way. I feel that what Teacher Rayson was speaking of in Colorado in his last session about the hundredth monkey concept has been attained by humanity as the movement in the world for bringing on Light and Life.
TOMAS: Yes, indeed. One out of 100. Indeed, it is more.
MARTY: It seems to me that the peoples of the world really are ready to bring peace on earth, and desire it. And in all of the religions, and all of the political factions, and all of the movements on earth, there are so many who are motivated in that direction, even though our political leaders don’t seem to…
TOMAS: What is the next step?
MARTY: It seems to me to be communication among ourselves that doesn’t take into account the differences, but the mutual purpose that we have.
TOMAS: Then we need some leadership, don’t we? And coordination.
MARTY: It seems very thrilling to me to be aware of all of the people around the world who care so much about life freedom and ecology of the planet.
TOMAS: It was not long ago that Teacher Ham talked about what this era would face, and in a very short time it is indeed being addressed. Yes, it is very gratifying to see what has been accomplished already, and what potential is there, even now. Imagine what can be done in the next ten or so years! Indeed.
MARTY: It is thrilling, very thrilling!
TOMAS: Indeed! And yet, it is not only thrilling, it is essential. It is basic. It is fundamental. We must have safety. How can you be expected to grow and flourish in an environment of fear? Those of you who desire peace, and who have power to be the vanguard of a new, universal mentality are encouraged and called to stand up for that next pinnacle of hope, which represents the birth of planetary government in spirit, in the spirit of love.
The nations will be nations, but the people can still have peace. It’s a worthy goal to contemplate. The time is at hand. The vulnerable element is that you become embroiled again and again in the politics, and in the separation, in the principles, theologies and philosophies even, of the various proponents of humanity. This is fine, this is good, this is part of the human condition, part of your own belonging to your own realm. But holding yourself up, above, apart, aside from that milieu, gives you the opportunity to envision the whole of humanity uniting and pulling forward their restless siblings in something constructive for humanity, for the planet, for your home, communal home.
The women, too, are able to wield a lot of influence in turning around the half of humanity, even by working with the Mother Spirit through nature, through the animals and plants and patterns of the material world. The sympathetic nature of the female generally nurtures, and those things which her heart is drawn to nurture are, more often than not, things that are good. For woman is a good creation, and has a great deal to offer, even as do men. Men would do well to listen more to their women. And women would do well to more encourage their men. But all of you do well to encourage each other, and keep your spirits alive. For this spirit is our salvation, our delight, our origin and our destiny.
Do not be discouraged. Let your own sense of rebelling against that which is inimical to the spirit rise up and direct your focus to that which the spirit within you would call you to do. Let love be your guide. Let love radiate from you, and you will affect others. Their own spirit will be stirred. And that is another fish, another fish story, perhaps, that I won’t go into.
Closing
Other questions? Due to the quiet, the still response, I have discerned you are full. I therefore will withdraw my presence from among you, with my thanks for your hearing my words, and perceiving my presence, and for recognizing my love, as it is the same in you. Go in peace. Amen, and farewell.
