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SESSION #6 – OCTOBER 2, 1982
Gloria’s Circle
Present: LaMar Bell, Ida Nevala, Julia Perala, Myra Perala, Larry and Eileen
Horton, Owen and Maxine Cramer, Richard and Mary White, Mary
Silveira, Clista and Wayne Brooks.
(Notes by transcriber, LaMar Bell)
Prior to going into trance, Gloria explained the purpose of the bowl of water on
the table. It seems that during one of these trance sessions, a great deal of moisture may
be taken from the medium and from members of the group. To prevent this dehydration,
a bowl of water is placed on the table so the water can be drawn from the bowl. In other
circles such as this, each person had a glass of water with which to replenish this
moisture both before and during the meeting.
Gloria: Myra might tell you what she told me after the last session.
Myra: Oh, was it the last session? I didn’t remember which time it was, but one
time I happened to be glancing out that way, and I noticed that there was a cloud of fog
that was going over toward Larry. It looked kind of like steam except it was big at the
bottom and got small at the top.
Gloria: It doesn’t necessarily have to do with the person that was sitting over
there, but it could be that in the drawing of the moisture from everybody in the group,
more might have been drawn from that side or something. You know, it was a balancing
action.
Note: Another point of interest had to do with prayer as an individual thing or
the value of group prayer taken from a book.
Gloria: My remarks (Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship meeting the previous
Saturday) and my understanding of Jesus’ teaching... Jesus did not build a church nor did
he organize a body of worshipers in a formal manner, and at no time actually
recommended verbatim prayer. He said “when you pray, pray as follows, or in like form,
and he gave the Lord’s Prayer as a pattern, as he, himself was given as a pattern. It’s
man’s idea to build the structure and to build a corporate body of worshipers, and to build
the corporate prayers. So in my estimation that is a public function which man has
established as a means to perpetuate certain structures that man has built. I’m not saying
that it is not inspiration. We all get a lot of value out of fellowship, out of unison
thinking. We do that when we sing, you see. But I am saying that is not an element of
effective prayer. Remember I said every thought is a prayer, every word is a prayer, every
deed is a prayer. We are talking about the effective prayer when one is intensely praying
for results.
So if you are going to seek, intensely seek, a personal guidance, you may get the
inspiration through a corporate prayer to go home and more intensely perform a personal
prayer that is going to get you personal satisfaction.
Owen: That is very interesting. We had an interim minister briefly. One of his
particular thoughts was that he never felt comfortable praying for everybody else. He felt
that was an individual matter, and so his prayers in the time that the minister normally
took up five minutes to give a long prayer, were very very brief, and he left that very
plainly to each individual.
Gloria: Yes, and you will remember when I opened my remarks, I talked about the
injunction that we are given to pray in secret, to go into the secret room to do our praying.
LaMar: The highest form of prayer is simply holding God’s name 24 hours a day
within us and recognizing our oneness with the Father.
Gloria: That’s right – exactly. In fact the ancient Hebrew doctrine was that the
name of God was so magical, and so precious, and so special, that man was not allowed
to pronounce it at all. It was reduced to an anagram so that man could not pronounce it.
Singing and healing as usual. Silverthistle came in very quickly and easily this time.
S/T: Your singing is appreciated, but the effort it took was more important
than the sound. Welcome. We are so excited to be here this night. There are such
things to come. First let us have the healing circle and service. Prepare yourselves as
you have been taught. (Rubbing hands together to bring in energy) Good. Now bring in
your loved ones. Come on now. Bring in that energy – lots of blue and green. And
now let us not forget Violet (additional names given) So beautiful here. If I could but
describe the correspondences that manifest here. Thank you for your energy and
love.
(after conclusion of the healing service)And now let us get on with the
proceedings. There is an answer to Helen’s question, but I see she is not here. So we
will table that until she is present.
So we shall go with my homily for the evening. “Blessed are they who
hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” The key word here is
“righteousness”. As usual most have an erroneous conception of what righteousness
is meaning in this dissertation. As I told you before, the beatitudes are universal
laws which operate whether you cooperate or not.
In this instance you are being told “As within, so without”.
Righteousness in this instance refers to justice and equality not piety. As you fasten
your thoughts on a thing, so it is for you. If you would have good health and
harmony within your fleshly body, then you must hunger and thirst for harmony in
your thoughts and emotions. If you are to have abundant material supply then you
must fasten your thought upon God and your source of supply rather than upon an
empty purse. If you want loving companionship, then you must focus your thoughts
upon lovingness, kindness and sympathy. As you are told in the Twenty-Third
Psalm, “He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake”. If you keep
your thoughts fastened upon God, if you hunger and thirst for God righteousness,
then that with which you shall be filled will be to your desire.
But if you focus your thought on poverty, illness, pain and loneliness
then that is what you will have filling your life. And so my homily is ended.
(A long silence.)
Myra: We see proof of that all around us.
Maxine: In line with what you have said, I think about (the painful) stiffness in my
neck. I assume that I am being stiff about something?
S/T: That is correct, and more personally, being stiff-necked about
something. In other words – opinionated and inflexible.
Many of your physical ailments come as a result of things that are in
your subconscious and unconscious, but as the law says, if you hunger and thirst
after righteousness, you shall be filled. As you hunger and thirst, your conscious will
train your subconscious to follow that pattern. More about the bodies of man is to
be brought to you very shortly.
Voice: Are you going to present that or is that one of the teachers waiting to talk
to us?
S/T: Some of it I will be giving you, and some of it will come through
another teacher. If we have satisfactorily concluded the questions on my homily, we
will get on to other things.
Very well then. It is my deep pleasure to bring to you this evening a
teacher who is going to instruct you in Cosmogenesis. Prepare yourselves for an
experience.
Judith: Silverthistle is gone now. (Voice is completely different than what we
have been hearing. Gloria’s demeanor also changed – facial expression – position, etc.) I
am Judith. My name is representative of the feminine aspects of praise and prayer.
It is my duty as a priestess in the temple of your initiation to teach you of
Cosmogenesis.
The first book of your bible, the book called Genesis, has the story,
but sadly confused. This evening I will attempt to explain some of that mystery to
you. It is going to require a coarseness on your part, an open-mindedness, but not
to the relinquishment of your analytical mind. The words I shall give you this
evening will be poor tools with which to convey to you the ideas I wish to present,
but nevertheless, we must try. You must make every effort to understand. If you are
going to put forth the effort to be here on a regular basis as you have demonstrated,
then we shall not waste your time. So come with me on a voyage of imaginative
exploration.
Because we are in a finite universe, we do not have words with which
to describe infinity. Cosmogenesis is that action which describes the beginning of the
universe which you know. But it is removed from your current experience as far or
farther than the consciousness of the cell which becomes fertilized and multiplies is
from its consciousness of you (as a whole).
We must then begin at a beginning, for we cannot begin prior to that.
We have not words nor understanding to do so. Two forces come forth at omega
points, one centrifugal and the other centripetal. (Editor’s note: We later came to
understand this was not meant to be limited to centrifugal and centripetal, but these words
were merely given to get us started in our understanding.) Both forces (are) present
simultaneously, operating upon matter which is of the body of God for want of a
better explanation. (Ed: “body of God” were also words for our understanding. Later
this was called “the matrix”)
Imagine, if you will, the act of beginning. There is a globule walled in,
separated from the body of God – the infinite. Within this globule is an organization
of God-Stuff. There is a nucleus, a mesh, if you will, a matrix, but for the sake of a
better word, we will say it is comprised of neo-protoplasm. This is in the way of
being spirit. Contained within this are the attributes of God intended for
manifestation in this particularization of the infinite. These attributes being Life,
Quality and Quantity.
Now this is not life as you know it in your physical body, but these three
divine attributes will be amplified for you in lessons to come. We are speaking of
this globule as though it were at rest. But remember my first words spoke of two
forces. If you are having difficulty imagining these two forces both at work
simultaneously, then I offer you the evidence of your planet that is in constant
motion through what you call space. The centrifugal force expands the globe at its
equator and the centripetal force depresses the globe at its poles.
Beside and attached to this nucleus of spirit mesh containing the God
attributes are twin vortices of god-mind: one aspect of god-mind, the creative, and
the other aspect of god-mind, the perceiver.
Now since we are dealing in “finity” rather than in “infinity”, we cannot do
other than speculate what the motivation might be for this creative action. We just
know that it is. If you will picture in your mind the Chinese emblem of the yin and
the yang, you will recognize two tear drops intertwined, each with a nucleus of
opposition within. Thus you have centripetal force within centrifugal force
operating upon the matrix of god-spirit containing god-attributes and being
directed by two functions of god-mind, or two aspects of god-mind.
Now all of this is in motion. It is not at rest. It is a rushing, swirling mass of
latent potentiality. Try as best you can to envision the two vortices of mind whirling
and whirling and whirling. As the forces work upon the nucleus, the three attributes
of god align themselves in such a way that the whirling vortices call the attributes to
them for purpose. As these two vortices whirl, they begin to throw out rays. (This is)
probably the best imaginative picture you could form for yourself. The nearest
available corollary in your earth’s sphere is the aurora borealis.
Now as these two vortices whirl, some of the rays begin to touch and form a
spindle-like formation, linking the two minds, and the attributes are drawn into the
spindle. If a picture were to be drawn, it would appear as a girdle around the
equator of this elongation of the rays. Separation begins to occur as centrifugal force
throws off rays and centripetal force draws these god-attributes into the center of
the whirling vortices of mind.
The spirit matrix which had been the carrier of the attributes begins to
divide and form a separate nucleus. In accordance with the law of duality which is
born with the two-in-one force, each vortex draws from the other, forming two more
pair, each pair taking its share of the divine attributes. Thus the original duality has
now produced two more dualities. Have you been able to follow this?
Myra: It’s like the cell division.
Judith: It is like your biological mitosis. Those of you who are versed in
biology might regard this original divine germ cell as the original isogamete. Now
this is not the only individuation of infinity. If we can say that time existed at this
omega point, at that point in time many other individuations would also have been
made with different forces acting. Other factors of god-mind, other attributes of god
are beyond our imagination, thus outside the realm of our study.
Now imagine this god-germ-cell dividing and proliferating into innumerable
multitudinous cells. As the two forces work together in opposition to each other,
there is an energy formed which we shall call tension. In your physical world tension
is that quality in consequence of which an electrical charge is caused to discharge
itself into the air such as a spark or to take from the greater potential and move into
the lesser potential.
This action of Cosmogenesis is similar to the behavior of electricity in
tension. The ultimate, unlimited, latent potential in the divine germ cell moves from
greater potential to lesser potential, and worlds come into being at the behest of the
creative mind working with the perceiving mind, always moving toward self-
consciousness.
Creative mind brings into being, perceiving mind observes, accepts and
digests, presenting creative mind with additional material from which to create
additional things for perceiving mind to take in. This is occurring in multitudinous
action. Thus we give you some idea of the downward spiral, if we can accept
direction at this point of the birth of your universe.
In later lessons we will become as specific in the birth of worlds and
ultimately in the birth of man, and the development of consciousness and its
function in the universe. Hopefully (we will) bring you to that point of initiation
where you will no longer need to be in your fleshly condition.
If you will contemplate on these wonders this should generate in your mind,
you will be preparing yourself to understand more at a later time. When you are
ready for more from me, I shall return to you. Thank you for having me. I bless you
all, and I will now turn you over again to Silverthistle. Good evening.
Good evenings and thank you very much, etc. from the group.
S/T: Well now, what do you think?
Answers: Mind boggling. Very interesting. I hope the recording was going.
Julia: It’s very difficult to understand from only an intellectual view.
Myra: Trying to imagine centripetal and centrifugal force in opposition is
fascinating.
Richard: That is what holds the earth together.
Myra: Yes. It just hadn’t come into me that way before.
Richard: If it weren’t for centripetal force, we’d have been thrown into space long
ago.
Owen: Another way is – if you have an object on a string and whirl it centrifugal
force is the force trying to throw it out, and centripetal force is the force of the string
pulling it back in. In the case of the earth and the gravity is the centripetal force pulling in
while centrifugal force is pushing out farther to the equator.
S/T: There was a great deal of consideration as to how this lesson should be
presented to you. There is much excitement in the temple about the lessons to come,
and everyone is eager for you all to be ready for them. I have been very excited
myself, and find myself drawn closer to this instrument because of these things that
are happening. And now we should perhaps get on with our discussion of karma
and reincarnation which seems to be closer to where you and I are at this time.
Myra: I have a question I would like to ask if I may. I was reading that the space
ships are bombarding Russia. Is this true?
S/T: If you are talking about extra-terrestrial phenomena, then I would
have to answer both yes and no. At this time, I could not explain to you adequately,
and rather than leave you confused and perhaps misinformed, I must beg off if you
please. I believe Judith is going to go into this as it comes along in the course of her
discourses.
Voice: Would you tell us more about Judith?
S/T: Judith is a priestess in the temple of initiation of which this group is a
part, and that is why these classes have come into being. There was some
amusement expressed at an earlier session when I suggested that a board of
directors had made a decision. Perhaps this is the time for us to talk about the
temple although you are not completely informed about the conditions in which the
temple exists. But there is no reason why you should not have this information as
food for thought. Many of the mysteries will become clarified as time goes along.
In physical construct, and remember things are physical here too, the
walls of the temple are formed by uprightly placed diamond-shaped stone. As these
diamond shapes are fitted together there would be the first layer or rise of half
diamonds, each touching at a point, forming an eight-sided structure. Then to fill
those spaces between the separated points and the adjoining points, would a full
diamond with the top half bent over, forming a roof with an opening in the center.
Can you visualize this description?
Voices: Yes. A wonderful piece of architecture. What color is it? Does it have
windows?
S/T: Any color that you wish to make it…. Not external windows as you
have on your houses in the fleshly world because we can see through the stone when
we so desire.
Now inside the temple as you go through the entryway, there is a
corridor that extends clear around the circumference of the building. But the
interior walls of the central portion are set at an angle so that if you could take off
the front diamond-shaped stone and look straight through the building, the walls
would form another diamond shape for you, not enclosed at the top. Within this
structure lie several areas that are changeable. In other words, if we need small
rooms, we can make them such. If we need large rooms, we can make them such.
Dependent upon what the need is, there is room for virtually unlimited numbers of
offices.
The corridor is by way of an initiatory path. A novitiate is taken into an
atrium, and when ready, begins the progression through the corridor. Each of the
eight diamond shaped areas is a step in the initiatory process. As the novitiate
progresses, he rises in his understanding and rank, if you will. (After) having
completed the circle, he is taken to the inner chamber, and is there given the
blessing of initiation.
The steps of initiation will be more clearly described to you when it is time
for you to take them. After you have learned the composition of yourselves, you will
remember much that will help you on your pathway, and you will meet the various
teachers of the temple.
Now as mentioned before, we do have organization here. There is a hierarchy
of power, if you wish to look at it that way, but it is rather a hierarchy of knowledge
and learning and respect. I use the terms priest and priestess simply to describe a
stature or status which has some meaning for you in your current experience.
At the top we have our beloved Karansa who might be called High Priestess
or a Mother Superior in a Catholic sense. Her responsibilities are great and many,
but the gloriousness of her being allows her to bring herself even into groups as
small as this because each of you is as important as any other. You, of course, have
already had visits from her.
Tonight Judith came to speak to you and gave to you the meaning of her
name. Names are not essential but they are descriptive of the essence of the
beingness of that individuation. We, here, are given the privilege of selecting our
own name. My own name is representative of two things: “silver”, which is the coin
of your realm and “thistle”, representative of the thorny path that you walk. Since I
have chosen the profession of working with incarnate people, I chose that name to
best describe my intent and purpose.
I understand your curiosity about me, and I have chosen not to reveal much
of myself before this time. Inasmuch as the group has now stabilized to that
condition in which Karansa feels it is time for your lessons to begin, I am most
pleased to answer your questions about myself insofar as it is possible for me to do.
What would you have me tell you? (pause) Do not spend too much time on this if
you wish to continue with our lessons on karma and reincarnation. But you have as
much right to use this time as you wish as I have to use it as I wish.
LaMar: It’s a very minor detail, but do you spell your name with two words –
Silver and Thistle – or just a word -- Silverthistle?
S/T: You are correct. It is immaterial. But if you would consider Silver as
an adjective to Thistle, you do know that the coin of your realm can be one of the
thorniest conditions of your existence.
Myra: One word would do it?
Mary S: Is it possible for us to visit you when we are sleeping – going into your
dimension?
S/T: You can certainly visit my world, but you might not make direct
contact with me individually. It would be determined by commonality of thought
and purpose and intent.
Maxine: Silverthistle, you said that you are spirit-physical and that you have
substance, are solid. What do you look like?
S/T: If I were to produce a flesh body in conformity with my idea of myself
at this time, I would be tall in terms of your current physical development. I would
have bronze skin and blue eyes. I have long bony fingers, and very long feet. I am
athletic in that I do the equivalent of exercise. My hair would be a very dark brown.
Whether short or long would depend upon my orientation at any given time, just as
you change yours.
Myra: Do you get haircuts?
S/T: No. If I think of classical topics, you might say my hair is long. If I am
interested in something that is fashionable, then my mind creates that which is in
accordance with it.
Voice: What name did you have before you decided to change?
S/T: I had several names, but as I explained, the names we take are
descriptive of our current intent, and purpose or emotional involvement. At one
time, I was called Duke Old Boy. At that time, I was involved in an area of interest
somewhat difficult to describe to you, but perhaps somewhat akin to your interest in
family genealogy, tracing roots. I have had many names as I moved along my path
of development. I use that only as an example. My previous names would not have
any particular meaning or even interest for you at this point.
Owen: Do you wear any particular kind of uniform or costume as a priest? Is that
what you wear all the time?
S/T : Clothing is again a matter of thought. It would depend upon what I
was thinking at any given time, as it would with you. You are not going to wear blue
jeans to a black tie function.
Comment: Some people do.
Mary S: Do you have a choice of how long you will stay in your present condition?
S/T: I will remain in this condition until my purpose is fulfilled. I have no
more idea of my future than you with the exception that I am assured that once I
begin something I am given the opportunity to complete it, whereas that is not
necessarily true in your condition.
LaMar: In other words, we do not necessarily stay in the physical just until our
purpose has been fulfilled?
S/T: Yes, you do. I’m sorry that I misled you. What I meant to convey is
that you might start a project such as building a house, or buying a car, or raising a
child, or whatever, but when your purpose is fulfilled, and it is time for you to enter
the corridor of transition, you will do so whether or not the house is built, or the car
is paid for, or the child is grown up. But in my condition, once I have elected to take
on a responsibility, I am given the opportunity to follow it through.
Voice: Do some people not follow through? Or something they would choose to
do – do they change their mind?
S/T: On this side you mean? Yes, but the penalties are there. If in your
condition or experience, you buy a car and promise to pay for it in a given length of
time – if you do not fulfill that responsibility, the car is removed from your
possession. For instance, if I should elect to abandon this project of your study
group, it would be as though that faculty which I am acquiring through this effort
would be repossessed, which makes the penalty much more severe than your loss of
a car.
Voice: At the completion of a project, do you experience some form of death?
S/T: Not necessarily at the end of a project, but at the fulfillment of the
purpose. We have the benefit which you do not always have of knowing when the
end is near and thus we are more prepared to go on to the next step. But we do also
have to traverse a corridor of transition, a death, if you will, for we do slough off
certain things. As your lessons continue in the composition of your world, you will
come to understand what it is. But until you are informed of the multifold condition
of yourselves and your world, it is too difficult to describe to you in a short time.
Myra: Could you please describe a little more about the corridor of transition? Is
this a physical place where the soul enters prior to the physical, or is it after the physical
death?
S/T: It is both. Using the words “corridor of transition” is intended to give
you some parameters for your imaginative faculty to use. The word “corridor” is
intended to convey to you the idea of a narrow directed crossing passage – difficult
to describe. But the idea being that there is only one place or means by which this
can be accomplished. A likeness to this could be the sky windows through which
your projectiles must go to enter outer space.
Myra: Does this happen before you die? Are you entering the corridor before
your body dies?
S/T: Yes. That is true, but you are not necessarily conscious of what is
happening, particularly if you are very, very, attached to the material world. There
are those who are so ready for the transition that it’s like leaping through a
doorway into the sunshine.
Voice: Is this corridor what people describe in the near-death experience as a
tunnel? .. With a light at the end?
S/T: Yes, and for some it is simply a doorway as if there were no dimension
of passing through. It’s simply that at one instant you are on one side and the next
instance you are on the other. But for some the tunnel is long, tedious and difficult.
Voice: Would that be people who fight death and keep hanging on?
S/T: That would be one instance in which that would happen – yes. The
length of the corridor is determined by consciousness. The nearest thing that you
have in your current experience that might be a corollary for this would be if you
were taking an anesthetic to go under for surgery. You often experience it as a
spiraling down or a going through a tunnel or corridor to the extent that you can
resist the anesthetic; the corridor has length and then suddenly it is no longer there.
Richard: Speaking of holding on to the physical… I have this question about the
reason we are in the physical to begin with. Are we here as a normal evolution of the
human race, or are we, the human race, here because we turned away from god sometime
in the past, and are now having to work our way back?
S/T: It seems as though I always have to give you a yes and a no, or say it is
both. Again, it is both. As Judith’s lessons on Cosmogenesis proceed, you will come
to understand more about the genesis of the planet earth and how man came into
being, and what is happening with man with reference to god. I think then that your
questions will be answered.
Voice: Will we get our lessons somewhere along the line about man on earth,
then?
S/T: I would think so. It has been so in my experience, and as I understand
what you might call the course outline, I do believe that Judith intends to cover that
material.
Myra: Could you tell us a little bit more about Judith?
S/T: What would you have me tell you except that she is a teacher in the
temple of initiation. She is one whom I respect highly and is respected highly by her
peers, or she would not have the stature which she enjoys. She has been initiated
through many temples, and thus earned her position. She is currently involved in
teaching a number of groups such as yours. I would imagine you are interested also
in what would be her physical appearance.
She is noble of brow. Beautiful, of course. She has an inner light that shines.
She is very loving and very interested. You did not have a chance tonight to get to
know her very well, but you will as time goes along. Since her subject is complex,
and she is so earnest in her effort to teach, she does get wound up in her subject and
fails to bring through the personal. You will get to know and love her as I do.
She has what you would probably call reddish-colored hair and blue eyes,
but a much deeper blue than mine, for she has a deeper understanding of the mental
realm than I have. Her skin is fair, almost translucent. Her body is flowing and
pliable. Her step is graceful. What else would you have? Her carriage is that of
nobility. She walks with pride and confidence.
Myra: Thank you. That is a beautiful description of her.
Voice: Silverthistle, could I ask about age? Do people age where you are, or do
they choose an age to be in?
S/T: In my condition as you will come to understand, yes, there is age. We
are born and we grow up through the stages of development similar to the way you
do. We are finite having a certain span of time through which to live which is
undetermined by us, but which is made known to us as we approach the end. We do
not choose to be 20 at one time, then five at another, although that is possible in
certain conditions, but not in the one in which I find myself at this time. The
organization of my world is very similar to yours because it is so very close to yours.
I am subject to time in a limited degree as you are. There are certain differences
here. I don’t know whether we will be able to make them clear to you very soon, but
in time your studies will enlighten you in that regard.
Richard: What determines your physical attributes? Hair color, eyes, etc. Is it
genetic as ours is?
S/T: Not as yours are. Not through the chromosome, but rather through
thought genes. We will have to discuss the process of birth and death in this
existence, and that will then clarify some of those kinds of questions.
LaMar: Silverthistle, it is my understanding that we have come back into the flesh
in order to work off karma with others. Is that the principal reason for our being here?
S/T: That is not the principal reason that you are here. It is a corollary
reason and has validity. As Judith proceeds with her lessons, you will come to
understand the meaning of race man and finally the meaning of individual man. I
am not prepared to give you that kind of information. It is not that I do not know
or have some understanding of that subject because I have already been through
that class. But it is for Judith to teach that subject matter.
LaMar: Then we’ll wait patiently. Richard: Or try.
LaMar: Several times recently, I have asked question from one source or another.
For instance, last session I asked about a good way to get into a good deep meditation,
and your answer was “I am that I am”. I keep getting that as an answer. I wonder if you
would delve on that phrase a little bit for me.
S/T: Within each of us there is an “I” that supersedes and transcends all
else that we know. As you observe yourself and observe your action and you
thoughts and your feelings, you come to understand that you are none of those
things. In your search for communion with divinity, you must first get into the “I
Am”, into pure beingness, into that sense of immortality that is available to your
finite mind.
It seems from where you sit that mind itself is infinite. It is infinite insofar as
it is a part of infinity. But the mind you now operate through and under which
control you are is actually finite. You will come to understand more about that as
you progress through the studies of the composition of man. But for now, as you are
attempting to meditate on the “I am that I am”, someone of your philosophers has
said, “I think, therefore I know that I am.” It is for you in meditation to know that
“I am that I am” without thought.
It is a matter of consciousness. For instance, a very bright person in your
flesh came up with the idea of method acting. Perhaps he knew what he was doing
and perhaps he did not. I am not in a position to render an opinion. He suggested
that when you are going to act the role of a tree, you must in consciousness become a
tree. If you are going to fulfill the role of divine man, which is what you are
attempting in meditation and communion with god, you must become I AM. Does
that help you?
LaMar: Yes, very much. Thank you. Very beautiful and well explained.
Mary S: Silverthistle, I’d like to send a message to a very dear friend of mine who
made the transition a week and a half ago. Is that possible?
S/T: As I have told you before, I can put it in the exchange.
Mary S: His name is Raymond Hofflinger, and I would like to have him know that
we are doing everything we can to help his wife and children.
S/T: I will be most pleased to convey the message.
Now it would seem that you have been overfed this evening, so
perhaps it would be best if we would draw this evening to a close. I leave you
reluctantly because there is so much more to be offered, and I have to keep putting
you off. I, too, must practice patience. We are so thrilled and so excited about this
class and the caliber of those of you who comprise it. We are all glorified through
you and because of you. We love you, and bless you and now I will say goodnight.
Thank you’s, goodnights, etc. Singing of “Let there be peace on earth” while Gloria
returns. Cookies and tea served by Myra for some fellowship following the meeting.
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