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“The Word of God is Love. The enactment of the Word of God
is service to your brothers
and sisters. Truly, if the Word of God is actively
resident within your life, the Fruits of Spirit
are being produced in your life through the Service of
Love.”
Solonia,
tml 5/2004
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URANTIA - THE WORLD OF
SCARCITY AND DEPRIVATION
“Your planet as a whole tends to
operate on a model of scarcity and deprivation.
This is an utterly
natural response to a world that lost its celestial administration, first
that of your Planetary Prince and then of your Garden of Eden and your
celestial parent models, Adam and Eve. For you have been literally deprived,
like orphaned children left to roam the streets grabbing scraps wherever you
can and in order to survive, dashing with the meager bits to hide in the
corners in the dark. The loss of the steadying influence of that cultural
legacy is unfathomable. So much so, that you cannot grasp what you have lost
without viewing it by understanding the echoes of the planetary dysfunction
that reveals it to you as a response to those terrible circumstances. One of
the scarcity responses is fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is always a scarcity
model. Within the fundamentalist mind set, there is never enough to go
around, and only if you obey certain strict rules will you survive. Always there
is the threat of disaster and the often grim hope of a miraculous salvation.
This constitutes a natural response of any child thrust into the orphanhood
and forced to survive without being helped to grow up into the adult status
that was your natural birthright. Harshness, or its concommitent, victim
mentality, are expected responses to such situations. So in order to address
the loss of the teachings of these administrations, you must understand what
it is that you have lost. And in order to understand that loss, you must see
the ways in which your distorted unfoldment of culture reveals that which you
lack. You are so close to it, that it is often times difficult of assessment
with any degree of realism.
One of the most clear-cut manifestations of this scarcity is your
poverty of spirit, your difficulty in attaining any true and lasting sense of
self-worth. And this must be addressed. The degree of guilt that many of you
experience, the degree of self-flagellation for largely understandable errors
and missteps, is profound, and to us, tragic and heart-rending. For you to
stand tall as beloved children of a loving Father and Mother is still very
difficult for most on your world, even many of you who have worked with us
now for so many years. All too often, you seek to gain self-esteem by
inappropriate sacrifice of self - not the sacrifices of service, but the
literal sacrifices of your own wants and needs that as healthy children would
propel you to self-respect, and thus to far more capacity for true service
than you can now manage. Without permitting love to fill you, serve as you
like, effectiveness will often escape you.
When we came, our first words to you were instructions to seek the
Father in stillness, to learn to allow him to love you, and to embrace
abundance. You sought to understand our words and concepts, yet you remained
baffled and confused by them. So much of your cultural history was not in
support of these concepts. You understood them intellectually, at least in
part, but you could not put them into true and lasting practice. You could
not allow real experience with these concepts to truly take hold and
transform you in the spirit. You have made progress, certainly in
intellectual understanding, and in baby steps of experiential understanding.
But you are only beginners yet. Still, your grasp of these problems is now at
a place where we can begin teaching you on these essential topics more in
earnest, so that you may understand the vast planetary problem this poses,
and can begin the personal transformations that will enlarge your hearts
enough that you may be filled with what is to come.
Your Urantia Book says that a pint cannot hold a quart. Without this
enlargement, try as you may, comprehend intellectually as you may, the joy
and abundance of a full spiritual life as a true son or daughter of the
Father's universe simply cannot be yours. You have often put this in terms of
your inability to "have" the good things of life, the difficulty in
"having" love and joy and all manner of truth, beauty and goodness.
You have felt keenly the sense of unworthiness, undeservingness attached to
this inability to "have". You can see it, sometimes want and yearn
for it, but it seems to remain beyond your actual grasp. For evolving beings,
conceptual knowledge is only had upon the experientialization of that
knowledge - it is in the moments of experiencing that it is truly becomes
yours to keep. This is a primary utility in experience. And a personality
cannot have full experience alone. Sharing is essential to full
experientiality - whether with spirit sources or human companions. And as
knowledge is only truly possessed by sharing, not merely in comprehension, so
also truth, beauty and goodness - special coordinating forms of knowledge -
cannot be possessed without sharing.
But without a sense of your true personality selfhood, you cannot
actually share experientially. Many of you have noted that however much you
talk and seem to understand one another in mind, it is difficult to put
things into action together. You can take your understandings to your
spiritual sources, but without a true sense of self, it is difficult to reach
a point of genuine contact. In addition, part of your difficulty with
diversity is that without a well-developed sense of personality-selfhood, the
diversity is perceived as a threat to your developing self. And this is not
even inaccurate. In the developmental sense of the human race, the self-hood
of the tribe is itself hard-won, and then hard-defended for protection of that
still fragile self-hood. A distorted sense of selflessness leads to a need to
defend ones viewpoints in a way that a clearer self-respect through
personality development does not require. In order to share well with one
another, you must have self-respect - healthy self-love - and you must have a
grasp of true diversity.
Sadly although understandably for young evolutionary beings, there is
much finger-pointing by those whose senses of selfhood are slightly superior,
towards those whose defensiveness is more noticeable. Instead of enlarging
the picture on your brothers and sisters when they are defensive, you judge
them as inferior, as engaged in wrong-doing, and sometimes make such
judgments all too plain. You do not stop to think of your advantage, and their
disadvantage. You do not first seek to understand them. And so all of the
various reactions of distortion - for you are all yet more or less distorted
on this topic - mill about and cause disunity where you most need and seek
unity. But unity without uniformity is still very difficult for you to grasp
and live.”
Reference:
Serenia, TML Archives, January 2005 (edit/modif.)
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”Let
us behold the Light, that through the forgiveness, finds its way into the
great darkness
of
this world. Perceive the Light in all your brothers and sisters by fully
forgiving each other,
because
it is only then that you will see their Light, know the higher Truth, and
achieve the
happiness
of Brotherhood.” (Michael of Nebadon, tml 5/2004)
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