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Asheville, NC, US of A, August 9, 2015.
Teacher: Ophelius.
Subject: “The Fantastic Journey.”
Message received by Chris Maurus.
Teacher Ophelius: “Today we would like to talk about a ‘Fantastic Journey.’ Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young child and you receive a letter from a well-funded space agency. In the letter it states that they are looking for young volunteers to be trained for a special mission to explore a faraway planet and that you have been selected as a possible candidate.
“The only requirement is that you willingly accept the invitation and report to the academy for special training. All your education, training and living expenses would be provided for and the only thing required of you is that you follow the program and work hard to complete the assignments given to you, which includes keeping a video diary of all your experiences at the academy and in your explorations of this faraway planet.
“You find this invitation exciting — like a dream come true — and you accept the assignment and report to the academy. Upon arrival, you find that you are not the only candidate. Others will be learning and working alongside you in a team. Not all will pass the final exam and some may have to study harder, yet all will have the opportunity if they choose to go to this faraway planet.
“You also find that your training and education will require many years of your life to complete and that dangers and unexpected events may influence or change the course of your training. You, keeping your mind on the fantastic journey ahead, are not dissuaded by the dangers and continue with the registration.
“On your sixth day you receive a special device that you are to carry with you at all times. It plans and guides you through all the training. It also records the greatest achievements in your training and will go with you on your journey to the faraway planet. This is also your communication device with Mission Control.
“In your training you are taught that your very survival and success depends on a working relationship with your teammates. And after many years of living and working together, you develop great friendship, love and respect for all of them. You can’t imagine life without their presence, love and support. During the course of your training, your teachers tell you that this journey is a one-way mission and that you cannot return to earth. You also are told that the life ahead of you on the faraway planet will be astonishingly beautiful, peaceful, exciting and fulfilling and you would not grow old because of the conditions there. Yet you must continue to record your experiences and prepare a presentation of journey when requested. Hearing this raises your eyebrow, but knowing that the training will require many years on the earth, you accept this sober destiny and continue.
“The day of your graduation finally arrives and you have trained well, passed your exams and have become very wise and learned about all that is known about the faraway planet and the journey ahead. You are excited and have no fear of the unknown because you have faith in your teachers, friends and teammates who have helped prepare you for this mission. Your family and friends are all there to see you off and to celebrate your great achievement. Although they will be sad because they will not see you again, they are happy for you and shed many tears of love and joy. After saying your tearful goodbyes, you turn and step confidently and boldly into the transporter and leave in a great flash of light!
“Now, my friends, had you not been prepared and educated for the journey ahead and guided by your special device and Mission Control, how confident and fearless would you be stepping into the transporter never to return to earth again? Is this not the story of your own life? Surely there will come a day when you will graduate from this life and go on to the many tarrying places in the Father’s house that he has prepared for you. Will you go boldly and fearlessly into that glorious place of promise, or will you fear it, dread it and go kicking and screaming because you were unprepared? Think deeply about this parable.
“Peace to you,
“The Circle of Seven.”
Edited by Linda Abell.
© 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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Alabama, US of A, March 7, 2014.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “The Best of Yourself.”
Message received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “If you try to express the best of yourself in every decision you make in your life, motivated by your highest ideals, then you will be able to say that you lived a successful and full life. When a human being strives to become better and to come closer to her ideal of deity – being like God – is when the will of the Father can be expressed with higher fidelity.
Right now, where you are, you can start working to forge a strong and balanced personality, filled with love, that will help you assume the responsibilities of eternity in your journey towards perfection. Right now, you can give the best of yourself in your job, in the relationships with your family, in the relationships with your siblings, and in the role you play in your community.
In everything you need to do ask yourself, ‘what would the Father do if He were in my shoes? or ‘what would Jesus do in this situation?’ This way you prepare your mind to find the path with most love, the wisest alternative, and the courage to fight for the eternal goals, because the fight for perfection is the principal mission of the human life and the victory is achieved through the decisions and actions of each day.
Create a true religious experience in your life, the experience of a human being who searches for God and finds Him within himself and his peers. This is only possible when you bring into your life the things of the Father, when you fill your mind with truth, beauty, and goodness. It is through this purification effort that you can increasingly reveal your true nature, assuming in earnest your rights and duties as children of God and universal citizens participating in the creation of a reality that moves closer each day to that which the Father has imagined in His infinite wisdom and perfection.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Faith is just curiosity tinged with hope — Thought Adjuster.
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Urantia, October 10, 2006.
Teacher: The Beloved.
Subject: “Experience A Glad Recognition.”
Message received by Lytske.
The Beloved: “It is extremely useful to write down the things you don’t understand, as during the writing answers may come, so clarity dawns. This is yet another learning experience.
It is made easier when you pour your heart and soul into it, because it will then become a habit of writing a letter to God. This is the most beautiful exercise you can engage in. It sharpens the inner listening skills, so you may accurately perceive the words that well up from deep within you.
It is a breaking down of the barriers that exist between you and Me, or so you suppose. Therefore, the time you spend with Me, with a sincere and honest attitude and an open trusting heart, allows you to whittle away some of these barriers.
You understand that I am giving you some very practical and useful instructions. Also, we have spoken before of how important it is to set aside a certain time for coming to Me in the Stillness.
This is serious business. When you have an important appointment to keep in daily life, you make sure that you are there in time, or perhaps a little early, so you will get the most out of the meeting. This is also what you do in lectures in a school of learning.
So, it is with us. I desire that you see our communications in this way. You prepare yourself with a prayerful attitude to meet with the God of your being to whom you are betrothed. Look forward to Me with desire in your heart, and I will respond likewise, so you will experience a glad recognition.
When you turn up for each daily appointment, it shows Me how serious you are about getting to know Me. Our daily rendezvous must become the most important part of your life, as you stand to gain a peace of mind, and assurance beyond measure, because your soul is being fed with manna from heaven.
Let these words sink deeply into your very being.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I Am the Satisfaction of Your Soul — The Beloved One.
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Oregon, USA, September 10, 2021.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “The Benevolent Synergy of Prayer, Worship, and Higher Service.”
Message received by Anyas.
“Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect these new spiritual significances back onto the life which now is. Prayer is spiritually sustaining, but worship is divinely creative.” [UB, 143:7.5]
Thought Adjuster: “Jesus established lasting foundations for the kingdom of heaven on Earth. He understood that it could only emerge through the visionary powers of open hearts — the human heart plugging itself into the First Source and Center to be infused with and quickened by the sublimely motivational love flow.
The acts of prayer and worship have been erroneously considered synonyms even though Jesus unequivocally differentiated them during the evening conference he held on Mount Gerizim. “Prayer is self-reminding — sublime thinking; worship is self-forgetting — superthinking. Worship is effortless attention, true and ideal soul rest, a form of restful spiritual exertion.” [UB, 143:7.7]
As you can infer from his statement, the dividends of a worshipful attitude immensely add to those yielded by sincere prayers. Both originate from your emotional core. Prayers intercede for your or others’ welfare — asking that basic needs be met. “Worship is the technique of looking to the One for the inspiration of service to the many. Worship is the yardstick which measures the extent of the soul’s detachment from the material universe and its” simultaneous and secure attachment to the spiritual realities of all creation.” [UB 143:7.6]
Jesus KNEW this by personal experience. His life was one of prayer, worship, and higher service. It is how, as a full-fledged human being, he graduated to the very divinity to which all awakened souls aspire. He was not boasting when he affirmed to be the way. What are you waiting for to follow in his resolute footsteps?”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
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Illawarra District, Australia, October 21, 2016.
Teacher: Midwayer Chief ABC-22 (Bzutu).
Subject: “Born in Sin.”
Message received by George Barnard.
Bzutu: “We are Urantia Midwayers, known for our ‘humanness,’ our sense of humor and our willingness to drop everthing and call on our mortal students . . . and on occasions play our tricks on them. This is ABC-22, Bzutu for short and I’m here today to point out that my friend here has long been in possession of a certain truth, a logical and inescapable truth . . . well, yes. However, until just a few days ago he did not realize the true and accurate meaning of what he knew so well. And so I just now encouraged him to let me make the point.
“We need to go back in time almost 70 years when a primary school teacher declared that, as humans, ‘you are all born in sin and live in sin your entire life. You are sinners!’ Should I now suggest that what is good for any human is good for all Midwayers, too? At the time my young friend disagreed wholeheartedly and rather loudly with the claim that anyone could be born a sinner, because babies were new, they were pure and unblemished. Rather soon some small town clergy got into the act and as a result the youngster began drifting away from his church. There simply was no logic left in the minds of those who attended a Catholic seminary, he thought, and then he told them so. It does take courage to talk down to grown-ups when you are only a little over 4 feet tall. He became rather unpopular with some.
“Not with us he wasn’t. Those who could clearly foresee so much of the future were already teaching him from a young age — our Dr. Mendoza more often than anyone. But then, just a few days ago, as I already said, he arrived at a sudden conclusion and could see the use of, the need for, yes indeed, the absolute necessity for the lowest of His thinking creatures to be required to dwell in space-time’s want, neediness, hardship even destitution — for them to live with this, rise above it, eventually perfect themselves in time and in this way become His most reliable and trustworthy Spiritual Warriors.
“Former humans, who have come through planetary life and lengthy morontia realities, simply don’t go astray. They are hardened by the tough lives they have led and unlike some higher echalon citizens, they will not falter at their tasks of governing future deep space planetary systems, even new universes. It is all seen so clearly now — the concept shone, it glowed, seemed truer than true — he was now living in a sinfull environment that would harden his resolve as he aimed for the closest thing to perfection in this planetary life and in the follow-up morontia lives of the future, getting ever closer to more advanced rules, mores and ethics on the way.
“Paradise would finally teach those of the earths — Midwayer and human alike — how to run ‘the business of planetary obligations’ fairly, consistently and empathetically. But Paradise in all eternity could not offer what bootcamp Urantia drums into its recruits in a relatively short lifetime on the planet and during their Mansion World lives.
“Take care, Brother.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
My Gift to you is for you to be of service to Me — Christ Michael.