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Chicago, US of A, October 5, 2014.
Teacher Prolotheos.
Subject: “Strengtheners of Good Character.”
Received by Valdir Soares.
Teacher Prolotheos: “You are primarily responsible for who and what you are. Early in life – between the ages of 5 and 6 – the human character develops, but only with maturity does it become truly sound. Good and bad influences certainly count, but decisions are the major factor. Character reflects some unique, unchangeable, and innate personality traits, but it also shows some changeable characteristics of the Self, formed through life’s decisions. Personal decisions can make a character good or bad, but good decisions spring from good principles. Honor your good principles, and they will honor you. Let’s take a look at some principles that strengthen a good character.
“Sincerity. Objective truth may many times be out of reach, but sincerity makes you truthful to yourself. Sincerity, unaided by love, is nothing more than a way to throw your ego or temper upon others, regardless of the consequences. Sincerity is to be honest, authentic, truthful with words and actions. Sincerity is a personal moral effort towards truth. Evil is never sincere because truth is incompatible with evil, since it springs from deceit, error and falsehood. Sincerity can be mistaken about content, but must be truthful in its intent – goodness. Hypocrisy will damage your character, but sincerity will make it reliable.
“Fairness. When on Urantia your Master said, ‘You will be judged with the measure you have judged others’ and ‘Treat others as you would like to be treated.’ God is our supreme example of fairness because ‘He is no respecter of persons.’ He perfectly consider all factors involved and renders a perfect judgment. To you, in your present spiritual development, He says, ‘Treat others as you would like to be treated.’ Practicing the Golden Rule strengthens your character with loving consideration of others, because a good and strong character strives for fairness in all dealings to its best knowledge.
“Goodness. Love is basically expressed by goodness. Goodness is the main strength of character, because love never causes harm. Rather, love always seeks the ultimate well-being of the loved ones. To help make your character strong, goodness cannot be seen as an option, it must be your passion. A character built with love refuses to consciously practice evil and always insists on making good. Goodness cannot simply be a strategic move. More than being politically correct, it strives for being divinely good, following the paramount examples of our Creator Son. Goodness is indeed the indispensable ingredient of a ‘good character’.
“Therefore, my pupil, the virtues of a strong character are also the virtues with which the Spirit Within will strengthen and grow your soul. Those are the values that will remain with you throughout your morontia and spiritual careers, even for eternity. Equally important, these values will make your life on Urantia worth living, with a clear conscience of striving for the best and showing it to the best of your ability. They will not make you perfect, only eminently sincere, fair and good – which is what is needed. This is from Prolotheos, your celestial teacher. Peace to you all.”
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Sincerity, Fairness and Goodness are Virtues that
Strengthen and Grow Your Soul — Teacher Prolotheus.
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Michigan, US of A, October 12, 2014.
Teacher Ophelius.
Subject: “What is it that you truly Desire?”
Received by Chris.
Teacher Ophelius: “Today, my dear friends, I have a question for you. What is it that you truly desire? I would like for you to sit with this question and narrow it down into the one most important thing that you feel would make you most complete and whole. Be completely honest with yourself and speak it openly: “The one most important thing that I desire that would make me feel complete and whole is ______________________________________________.”
“I do not want to lead you to a place where you answer this because of what I say or teach, yet I want you to develop a sense of clarity about who you are; your value as a human being, and your sense of life’s purpose. This can only be answered by you. What I can tell you is that you, as a race of beings (humans), were created to be co-creative experiential partners with the Creator and that you are unconditionally loved and offered the opportunity to live eternally if you so choose to continue your life in pursuit of the Father’s calling to “Be perfect as I AM perfect.” This directive challenges you to continue your life beyond this world into the higher worlds and realms of the multiverse where you will learn and experience things your imagination has no reference for – experiences of such beauty and sublime grandeur – having personal relationships with myriad diverse creatures that populate and administrate this master universe – the very experiences that will finally bring you across the universes of time and into the presence of the Creator Himself.
“And what is the one most important thing that will bring you across the universes and into the Creator’s presence on paradise? Perfection, yes? But how is it that we truly become perfect? The answer is very simple, yet to arrive at this simple answer is to eliminate all the other possibilities until the purity of this one answer has become who you are. You, my dear friends, were created in love – to be loved, and to return to that love from which you were created. At the core of your soul – the true self that is in development, grows in direct relationship to the quality of love you understand. To understand love, means you have experienced love and expressed love at the level of your understanding. The more you understand love, the closer and more god-like will be the essence of your soul where you will finally approach relative unity of vibration and oneness with the Creator – to know love as the Creator is love.
“At present, most of you are discovering, as you go about your daily life, what love is not. Some will have those moments of clarity and experience the “peaks” that make a life-long impression where you touched love in a form that helped you understand the rudiments of real love where your soul expanded and you developed a hunger to find another moment of clarity where yet another peak could be experienced that would make you feel “whole.” To feel “whole” is to fill the “hole” in your understanding – to experience love in higher and more pure forms with less conditions until love becomes you and you become an expression of the Creator’s Will here and hereafter. As we chain together all these peak experiences where we discovered a deeper layer of love, we build a soul that is more and more perfect and more reflective of the Creator Himself. This is how we ascend to perfection, my friends, and this is how we answer the Creator’s call. How long is it between peaks – days, weeks, months, years? As free-will creatures you control and decide the intervals between love experiences.
“Again, what is it that you truly desire? Was your answer something that would help you understand love at a deeper level?
“Peace to you,
“The Circle of Seven.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
“The giving of self, the illumination of truth and the relief of suffering
are the noblest paths to higher consciousness.” — Teacher Ophelius, 2009.
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Illawarra District, Australia, October 8, 2014.
The Damascus Scribe.
Subject: “Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind.”
(Part Two – Dimming Minds and Cosmic Consciousness)
Received by George Barnard.
The Scribe: “We have ‘arrived at’ a balanced, positive, surviving and thriving human being. So where does he or she go from here? There are just two ways to progress from here — the evolution of true enlightenment or the degeneration of a dimming human mind.
“On occasions a momentary, severe or lasting shock to the mind can cause the inability — either permanent or temporary — of Adjutant Mind-Spirits to disengage with human subjects. Such traumatic stress, but even mental illness, injury, disease or genetic aberrations can be the cause of the degeneration of human mind capacity. The Adjutant Mind-Spirits would then fail to engage, mostly in reverse order, with Wisdom and Worship to fall short at first, then Counsel, Knowledge, Courage and so forth, with Intuition last of all to fail.
“The much better alternative is to attain spiritual enlightenment. It was once referred to as illumination, but a worldwide group of largely left-brained intellectuals have now laid claim to that term, so we will stick to spiritual enlightenment, or cosmic consciousness, satori or nirvana. There are as many names and definitions for spiritual enlightenment as the Inuit has words for snow, as the Sami has terms for reindeer. There is one great difference, however, for most who talk of spiritual enlightenment have no idea what it means.
“Most of the lucky ones who attain spiritual enlightenment, initially have no idea about what is happening to them. Those who actively seek it, rarely know how they will feel once they achieve it.
So, what is it? The successful recipient of spiritual enlightenment has drawn his spirit, soul and mind into his thinking process, his judgment, decisions, his actions. The lucky recipient of spiritual enlightenment has gained access to all the universe and feels a oneness with all that is. She now has access to the first aspect of Morontia Mind.
“She now has access to an elevated level of thinking that is on a par with that of our closest celestial kin – the Midwayers. Few have words to describe how they rose above the crowd, for what they have experienced varies so greatly, even as their personalities are so very different. Few have the words to describe what they experience, for what happened to each is unique, tailored to what eternity already knows will become their function. None will ever forget the event, for they found the pearl of great value and nothing worldly compares.
“Will he or she be like Dante, inspired to write about the times? Like Pascal and invent things? Like Behmen, and closely know nature? Or like Paul and be blinded? Will he or she be like so very many and say nothing to the inexpert, for there simply are no words? Yes, my friends, search and you shall find that pearl of great worth.
“I am the Damascus Scribe. Is there anything I value above friendship and unconditional love?”
George: “Indeed. And so say we.”
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You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire — ABC-22.
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Illawarra District, Australia, October 8, 2014.
The Damascus Scribe.
Subject: “Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind.”
(Part One — The Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits)
Received by George Barnard.
The Scribe: “We will discuss Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind between us this evening. It will constitute a suitable follow up on our talk of just a few days ago. I am the Scribe of Damascus, the now personalized Fragment of the Father that guided the Master Jesus during His short, but eventful bestowal upon this planet. I am a Teacher, still, to many friends of many spheres. We shall begin, my students, by briefly considering the Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits.
“They are called the Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits because they are spirits who, all seven, impact upon the human mind (at most, only five impact upon animal minds).
“When these five of the seven Adjutants are fully “accepted” and functioning, it is time for the sixth and seventh of the Mind-Spirits — the Spirits of Worship and Wisdom — to arrive in that order. It defines the human as being capable of evolving beyond the level of the smartest of animals and as a potential Paradise pilgrim. I want you to clearly see the Worship and Wisdom Adjutants as “non-identical siblings.” These two Adjutants rather “belong in each other’s regular company,” more so than the others, although Wisdom is the crowning champion of the seven, of morality and much, much more.
“Here we have arrived at a balanced, positive, surviving and thriving human being. So where does he or she go from here? There are just two ways to progress from here — the potential evolution of true enlightenment or the rare degeneration of a failing human mind.”
Note: See the 11:11 discussion board or our web site for Part II of “Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind.”
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You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire — ABC-22.
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Urantia, October 5, 2014.
Teacher: The Beloved One.
Subject: “Mind over Matter.”
Received by Lytske.
The Beloved One: “At the start of a brand-new day it is always fitting to offer a prayer of thanks to the Creator of all and silently wait to feel His wonderful and mysterious energy flowing through you. This makes you aware of how it is that this awakening brings another day to be of service to the All-That-Is, who gives life and takes it away on His own terms. Most mortals give little thought as to how come they are alive, or what might be their reason for living.
“This planet is populated by untold numbers of unawakened souls that don’t know that within them lives a great Gift — a Gift that helps them unfold and grow their infant souls. The budding development of the soul is the true gauge that will one day show the value embedded in it, so to be carried forward into eternity. The mortals on this planet do not pay much attention to the state of their souls and what they will carry with them into life hereafter. It is the possession of a soul filled with hope, faith and trust in the Maker of all things — visible and invisible — that provides the impetus to listen to His Still Voice within after mortals have opened their side of the communication channel.
“Over time it will clearly become a mind-over-matter issue to be able to listen to guidance, untrammeled by outward noises, especially those from the fearmongers, who live in denial of their Creator, or who, at the very least, display little faith and trust in the benevolent and loving over-care of the Creator. Their minds are so tuned to matter, that they forget that there is more to life than meets the eye. Their God-given minds are almost inactive as they believe all and any negative contrived news.
“For the deeper thinkers, their minds are now beginning to be used for what they were designed, but overall much more could be gained if their minds could join up with the Spark from God within. Great things can and do happen when the mind is used in the way it was intended. Each person — none will be exempted — shall be held accountable for that precious mind so freely bestowed upon them. Is it being used to further peace and goodwill on the planet? Perhaps. Is it left to the winds of change blowing about the planet, and in such a manner as to influence all by whatever news is dished up by those who have the hidden agenda for world domination?
“Those mortals will pass on, never having realized that they lived like slaves, for never having used any of the precious gifts embedded within them and never having tried to think outside the box. What travesty allowing others to do their thinking for them! What travesty to live life, but never having been truly alive, only to listen to the old stories running through their heads of what others told them!
“At any time there must certainly come a wake-up call for many to start practicing mind-over-matter — to start thinking for themselves and accept the responsibility for their lives and how to live.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire — ABC-22.