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Urantia, November 16, 2013 (date of transcription).
Teacher: The Beloved One.
Subject: “Learning to Do the Will of God.”
Received by Lytske.
The Beloved One: “Today we will discuss the subject of will. Many entertain pre-conceived notions about what will is. Is it to want something, to will something and make this happen, to bend others to their will? Still, the most important one, learning to do the Will of God, is often the most puzzling, yet the simplest of all. The spiritual meaning of doing God’s will is allowing the Still Small Voice within to lead you, rather than choosing to follow your own baser instincts.
“When you start out on the spiritual path, you may be seeking that indefinable something. Perhaps the urge to make sense out of life is what put you on the path, and this can happen at any age during mortal life. Ideally it will occur when a child reaches the age of ‘discernment’ and makes a correct choice between right and wrong. It is then when the Inner Pilot arrives, instantly, and indwells that child. From that time on the child will most often choose to be led by its Indweller, often unconsciously at first, whilst true soul-hunger will develop.
“During the formative years it depends to a great extent on the prevailing circumstances how a willingness to be led develops. At times this is very gradual, but sometimes they forget, and mortals have to be ‘brought to their knees’, and made to realize that there is more to life than being addicted to thoughtless, easy living.
“It is very much a matter of where conscious or unconscious attention is placed on the plane on which the person lives.
“Therefore, if one lives ‘on the surface of life’, everything is superficial and mundane, but when one begins to think more independently – begins to question the true purpose of life, and starts seeking the deeper meanings and values – the person develops a hunger to look behind the veil into eternity. The immature soul will begin to grow and will seek to be fed and nurtured.
“This urge and search to belong does not stop until the eternal God is found, indeed, until the soul realizes that it always did belong to God, because it simply cannot exist without God, for everything is inclusive with God. God gave mortals the Gift of free will. It is up to each mortal to choose to do the will of God and live in that consciousness of mind to figure out what it all means, to then start acting on the leadings and the prompts of the God-Fragment within him or her.
“Ponder what it means to you personally, to do the Will of God.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
We are each other at our spiritual Root Source –
ABC-22, January 1972.
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Alabama, US of A, April 12, 2011.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “A Lesson about Being Self-Satisfied.”
Received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “Being at peace with the current situation and being self-satisfied are very different things. When you are living in the present, without fantasies about escaping reality, or being somewhere else, you are living the will of the Father, which has placed you in a particular situation. Being self-satisfied implies the mistake of believing that there is no more progress to be achieved. The former promotes spiritual growth, while the latter is a sign of stagnation, and even regression.
“The desire of escaping reality comes from your mind. Many times it is the result of various external influences. It may be what others consider as normal, or as success. They are the materialistic tendencies and the whims of the ego. It is to want things that in reality won’t add any value to your life.
“Living in the present is a desire of the soul. It is to realize that we are here for a reason and with a purpose. It is to take responsibility for the consequences of our decisions and for our destiny. It is the knowing that our Father is in charge, and for us to progressively let ourselves be guided by His hand.
“Those who live in the present neither pursue stagnation, nor do they desire inertia. Living in the present is to pay attention, and to always be observing students, capable of reading in the routine events of life the gifts and opportunities sent by the Father. Those who focus into the present moment know that every second is a gift that can have transcendental repercussions, even reaching into eternity. Those who live their life in this way are truly in harmony with the will of the Father, basing their decisions on it, and learning with every opportunity that life brings them. These are the ones who are not desperately looking for a way out, but see life as an adventure and a journey full of surprises that will bring them precisely what they need to grow and be.
“Learn the difference between conformity and inertia, between living in the present and forgetting to listen to the voice that inspires you to be better. Avoid inertia and cultivate an attitude of living in the present, of doing the task in front of you in the best way possible, because maybe that is what the Father has placed in your hands today.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
We are each other at our spiritual Root Source –
ABC-22, January 1972.
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Illawarra District, Australia, November 12, 2013.
Divine Self (Thought Adjuster).
Subject: “Mindedness to Suit and Numbers.”
(A personal message.)
Received by George Barnard.
Divine Self: “Not in your dreams would you be teaching algebra to a newly-born human infant. And it would never do to teach a two-year-old the ins and outs of quantum mechanics. The infant, and even the two-year-old, lack the mindedness to suit. Alas, so it is with you. Your deliberations have brought you to a steeply rising wall. It is smooth and slippery, and you have not the mountaineer’s equipment to scale its heights. You have not the mindedness to suit.
“Perhaps through revelation you would have some comprehension, temporary or permanent, even if you lacked true understanding. However, you can always count on the fact that the most complex and intricate can ever be explained in simpler terms, and here I will approach statistics as it is practiced by mortals on this world, as it is seen by the angelic ‘races’, and as it is ‘held in mind’ by Thought Adjusters and, of course, by all Creator Beings.
“For you (humans) it will suffice to pursue just one item of interest. You determine your sample, remove the outliers, perhaps compensate for sundry other factors and calculate the outcome. For the most advanced of Morontia Beings, your sample is too small. Their sample would be huge, massive, and thus there would be fewer outliers in proportion. And, as well, their items of interest might rather be in the hundreds, thousands even. Untold data would become available.
“Most remarkable of all, at least to your mind, would be how deity sees their sample. Not only is the outcome instantly known, the sample contains all available individuals, and not an item of potential research is overlooked. Mostly, time is irrelevant to deity, so it could be said that the very unasked question arrives with the instantaneous and appropriate answers. Such is the power of your Gods – to know all, past, present and future ‘dwelling’ a mere thought away.
“Still I have not answered the question of your heart so here it is in an instant, when you would work for days and weeks to research the subject by interviewing your sample of participants, one person at the time. Your average arrival at to your lists is tentative, even negative on the teachings. He or she will stick around, even through laziness as long as the lessons published are short, of common sense and logic. Only when a certain lesson fills a real need will you have succeeded.
“That is the subscriber’s ‘aha moment’, and from this point he or she will read the work with intent, intrigue, even with patience when the lessons don’t gel with their established beliefs. It opens minds, and it really does not matter if they then go their own way with whatever belief system or religion they prefer, as your dear Friend and Master Machiventa made clear. Always will you be about numbers, but you must also count those who learn from you, and then leave.
“Confer with me. I am as close to you as your heartbeat, whilst in time My very thoughts will be yours also, as you inherit the mindedness to suit.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Try coming out of the shadows, a little at the time – TA.
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Urantia, November 17, 2013 (date of transcription).
Teacher: The Beloved One.
Subject: “Practicing Random Acts of Kindness.”
Received by Lytske.
The Beloved One: “Come before Me with an open heart, so I can impart a deeper truth. We earlier discussed the doing of the Will of God. It needs to be understood that this is never compulsory on your part, and neither is the doing of God’s Will coerced on the part of God. The doing of the Will of God is simply the desire to serve others without recognition or recompense. It is following the instincts of your heart, which in reality are My prompts for you to act upon.
“The doing of the Will of God needs to be a desire, a joy in the human heart. It exists in the spreading of, and practice of, random acts of kindness. It is being of service with a sincere, truthful and loving heart. In love, light and peace are embedded. If you consider yourself to be a light-worker or a peace-worker, then you work under the umbrella of love, although it is not always described in this manner.
“God is Love, His Will is Love, His Acts are Love, and this love finds further expression in the lives of myriad created and evolving creatures. The created beings express themselves in loving service and the doing of God’s Will is inherent in them, and thus they serve Him willingly. Not so with the evolving creatures, they are different in that they have the choice to love or not to love.
“The process of making choices and decisions creates individuals who differ greatly from each other. The degree to which positive or negative characteristics become the dominant traits depends on how much self-discipline and self-correction is engaged in. A personality, living on the surface of life and who engages not in independent thinking, can more easily fall prey to all kinds of addictions and self-indulgences. However, a person who actively seeks the meaning and purpose of life, and finds value therein, will start to live in greater harmony and balance within themselves.
“Worldly education and long rows of letters behind one’s name are no certain indication of a well-developed and harmonious inner life. The more unpretentious one is, without a strong discernible ego, the better off one is, often doing God’s Will in an unassuming manner. There is an innate drive in them to be of service. The greed motivation is never connected with altruistic service.
“So many works done in the name of God are just that; in name only. There frequently is a hidden agenda and a strong need for recognition. The Father always knows the intent and motivation of the human heart, even if it is not apparent to the outside world.
“Again, ponder what it means to you to be doing God’s Will.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
We are each other at our spiritual Root Source –
ABC-22, January 1972.
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Alberta, Canada, March 5, 2013.
Prometheus’ Treasures - II.
Subject: “Allowing the Light.”
Received by Renée.
Teacher Prometheus: “We open our hearts and minds to take in the beauty of our Creator, and to share all for which we have the capacity to accept.
“All the elemental qualities of Love are inherent in the Light we receive.
“With the Guidance and Loving Mastery of our Indwelling Spirit, we are evolving into the eternal Beings that already exist in the Holy Mind of the Creator.
“I am Prometheus.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
All the elemental qualities of Love are inherent in the Light we receive – Prometheus, 2013