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Now dear one, close your eyes and open your Spiritual Eye. Say
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Stephen is a full grown man, in a robe Standing in a room with other people, all in robes I do believe the Christ is there
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And what is the Christ doing
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He is giving instructions to everyone there They are not gathered in a circle listening to him They are loosely scattered about the room as though in a cocktail party There are both men and women. All in robes – like monks I am actually seeing the Christ holding a drink in his hands!
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Is that so surprising
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Well – yes!
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What is Stephen doing
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He’s looking. He’s looking all around him He always has one eye on the Christ Even as he looks around the room and eyes his comrades All the fellow disciples
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And they, are they all focused on the Christ
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No it would seem not They are meeting each other, greeting each other Nibbling at the chips, conversing It is the prototypical cocktail hour scene at a party It feels like the preliminaries The hour before the party really gets going
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Good. Observe through your Eye, observe
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Again, Stephen keeps one eye firmly attached to the Christ As he walks around the room He hasn’t spoken to anyone yet, but he is assessing them
Who are these people, his comrades, his fellows Who are they?
He is sizing them up. Looking at them Trying to get a sense of these people Who will be his companions for the next period of his life
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And what period is that
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Way-Shower Training
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So his comrades are fellow Way-Showers to be
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Yes
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Continue
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And Stephen continues his circle around the room Always aware, hyper aware, of where the Christ is at any given point And he listens in on a group of people here And he listens in on a group of people there He has not said a word yet Oh here he is, someone has extended a hand to him in greeting And he takes it in response and introduces himself
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And what does he say
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I don’t know; I know that he introduces himself But I do not know what he says
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All right dear one. Continue
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He remains with this group as they make conversation It is not quite small talk, but it is light
Who are you? What is your story? How did you come to this point of being a Way-Shower in training? When did you first know that you were to be a Way-Shower
That seems to be the question of the hour The one that interests people the most The one that animates them and gets them talking The moment that they knew they would be a Way-Shower What led up to it. The moment itself Their initial disbelief, their reaction Their astonishment. The wonder of it all They cannot get enough of this conversation topic They cannot tell their story too often They cannot hear each other’s story too often That is THE subject everyone talks about Yes there is the initial ‘hello my name is so and so’ But they very quickly launch into the topic near and dear To everyone in the room WHEN DID YOU FIRST KNOW YOU WERE A WAY-SHOWER
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And what does Stephen say in response to this question
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He responds about the conversation with the Divine Brotherhood How he went to a training camp in Australia Have you heard of it – Clairvision Anyway, when he came back he picked up a book That had been lying in his bookcase for years Have you heard of it – Jean K Foster’s books And almost immediately Was able to communicate with the Divine Brotherhood And after that, well it was just a matter of time A gradual unfoldment, a gradual awareness As he became increasingly receptive to the idea And then finally officially accepted the assignment
They all nod their heads; yes it is a familiar story Yes, they recognize this story. It rings true Yes, they know this story well And yet are eager to hear each person’s version
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And now what happens
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Well Stephen is now a fully participating member of the group No longer merely a detached observer I see him hungrily eating at the appetizers And yes thirstily gulping down a drink Speaking has excited him Having the others understand him completely and accept him Has reassured him He belongs! He relaxes. He participates And circles the room and introduces himself And is introduced and files each name and face in his brain For he knows he will be spending time, much time With these lovely individuals All who have committed to being Way-Showers for the Lord He is happy. He belongs And he is glad of this opportunity to get to meet his future companions Glad of this opportunity for this first get-together So they are not total strangers to each other at the first lesson No, this is good And Stephen is now completely comfortable Completely relaxed and yet energized I would say he is excited He likes these people. They are a varied group Both sexes, various ages and ethnicities, various backgrounds But they all have this one thing in common They have been selected for and have accepted to be Way-Showers in Training And I am inferring that this group will be one class That is they will receive their training together I gather there have been groups/classes before them And there will be groups/classes after them But this group/class will receive their training together And this cocktail hour reception is for them To introduce themselves to each other To get comfortable with each other To become at ease with each other To develop rapport and a sense of camaraderie And they do exactly that
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And Stephen, is he doing exactly that
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Very much so! He is absolutely delighted He never had so many friends in his life! Yes he is delighted For though the people are all different – various ethnicities, backgrounds They are all of one purpose They are all excited and energized by the one all-consuming topic Their decision to become Way-Showers
They do not speak much of what lies ahead for them That strikes me as odd
They are fascinated with how each came to the decision And they are all excited to be here And to meet each other And to listen to each other’s story
How did you come to be a Way-Shower in training? And of course the story varies in form with each individual And of course the story is the same in essence for all And they cannot get too much of this They are enjoying this. They are relishing this This is fun! They are happy They are very happy to be meeting each other There is definitely a bonding process occurring There is definitely a recognition of their commonality They are all, each one, destined to be Way-Showers in training
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Very good dear. Now close your eyes. What happens next
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Jesus claps his hands And everyone immediately hushes Anyone who doesn’t is quickly and quietly hushed by his neighbor The Lord is about to speak! And they all turn to face him And all their faces are open to the Lord’s Their eyes, the eyes on each and every single face Are open and clear and trusting
I find this beautiful and touching and tender
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And the Lord, what does he do Do not project; do not imagine what should happen next What would naturally happen next Close your eyes and observe
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And yes, of course The Lord is silent And silently he takes his time And looks into each one’s eyes And it is his look His own very look that only the Lord knows to do The look that searches out the person and knows all; ALL He looks at each person; he knows all about the person He looks at each person; he recognizes the person He looks at each person; he LOVES each person He looks at each person, and he sends to each one all All that this person needs, all that is missing he sends to them So that they are complete And he does this slowly Taking his time with each individual There is a great silence in the room There is a great stillness No one moves Everyone understands what is happening And there is no fear nor trepidation in anyone’s eyes No one fears the Lord looking into their eyes and knowing all No, no one fears this For they trust their Lord They have each one learned To be completely open and trusting in their Rabboni And they wait in respectful silence As the Lord looks and looks and looks At one person And when he is satisfied, he nods his head He sends the person his look of pure love The person receives that love That love floods his being It lights up his being He becomes incandescent And he of course knows exactly what happens And treasures the moment silently; hugging it close to his chest And the Lord moves on to the next person Again taking his time Taking all the time he needs Searching the person out Knowing and recognizing the person Sending him that look that lets the person knows that the Lord KNOWS him And the Lord has searched the person out And knows all that is lacking And fills the person with all that he needs And finally the Lord sends the person the look of Love Of pure Love as only the Lord can send
And the Lord moves on to the next person And the Lord moves on to the next person And the Lord moves on to the next person
And each person is open and trusting and clear They would not have been in this room had they not been so There is no need for purification That had already happened before this assembly No, now it is a time of the initial meeting with the Lord It is a time for the Lord to search the person out To fill him and complete him To send him that glorious look of Love That will fortify the person for the remainder of his Eternal Life And this is what happens And it all happens in complete and respectful silence and stillness Though everyone is still; yet they are relaxed They are clear, open, and trusting There is no fear nor malice in any They each await their turn in complete trust For they trust in their Lord It is not about them
It is about the Lord It is about the Lord It is about the Lord
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What thought do you have in your mind dear. Spit it out
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The thought is there. I do not know if it is real or simply my fear But the thought is there that there is a minus one That within each group; within each class; this one included There is one person who is not trustworthy One person who is not pure. One person who is a potential Judas I do not know if this is true, but the thought is in my mind
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Close your eyes and contemplate this thought
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It seems that in the manifested world there is always a minus one There was the snake in Adam’s time There was Judas in Jesus’ time It would seem logical that there is a minus one in this time as well
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And what do you think of this thought
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Complete and total and utter discouragement For the minus one corrupts and destroys And has had its way each and every time
And my understanding had been that God would be now granting us The Gift of Right Location But that is only after the Great Shakeup Only after the Coming Times
The period of Way-Showing will be during the Coming Times
Oh dear Lord, please tell me that it is not true That there is not the snake among us Or if there is; then we should know; should we not So that we are prepared; for knowledge is power Or perhaps not; it was knowledge of evil that did Adam in
But then the lack of knowledge (of Judas) led to Jesus’ crucifixion And the Urantia book says it need not have happened that way Humanity could have written a different story One in which they had accepted Jesus And truly the Earth would have become Heaven on Earth But that did not happen for the snakes of the time had their way
Oh dear God, tell me, is there a minus one to be among the Way- Showers. Please tell me the truth
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And can you handle the truth
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I want to know the truth And I want all given to me to handle the truth
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There is to be a minus one among each group of Way-Showers Just as there was a minus one among Jesus’ 12 disciples So will there be a minus one Among each group of 12 Way-Showers in training
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That’s a lot of minus one Way-Showers in training Will these minus one Way-Showers in training graduate And become Way-Showers
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What happened in Jesus' time
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Yes, Judas completed the training and became an official disciple
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And therein lies your answer
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That’s a whole lot of minus one Way-Showers For I am expecting to be quite a few groups of Way-Showers If each group has a minus one Then that adds up to quite a few minus one Way-Showers
I am trying to absorb this piece of information
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Take your time. It is not an easy piece of information to digest
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No, it is not. Please, and exactly whose idea is this
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Does it matter
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I am seeking understanding
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Whose idea do you think it is
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God the Father’s
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You are correct
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And his thinking is that …
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Tell me dear. Tell me. What is his thinking?
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That we are to learn ourselves how to deal with the problem of evil
That we are to prove ourselves – do we choose for evil or do we not That we are to prove ourselves – do we recognize evil or do we not That we are to prove ourselves – do we conquer evil or do we not
I am grasping at straws here
God the Father has himself told me that there is no dealing with evil That there is only the Gift of Right Location
But apparently he has chosen to withhold this wondrous gift Until after the Coming Times
And the reason being… To help discern who is to go where For the minus one will help the Father decide who really belongs where For the one who chooses for the minus one Will go to a different place than the one who chooses for good
And yet, it would seem like a dirty trick Placing a minus one in pure white robes And announcing him to be a Way-Shower Sent by the Lord to lead the people home
And now the thought is coming to me That the minus one did not deceive the people So much as test the other disciples
Oh dear I am completely at a loss here I am grasping at straws here I am rambling here
Please help me Help me to focus Guide me here
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You are actually doing quite well Review your notes one more time and revise and add as necessary
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The minus one did not deceive the people He facilitated the crucifixion He helped those who hated Jesus to have their way And those who hated Jesus had their way And the people, like sheep, chose to follow those who hated Jesus
And yet in Adam’s time, the minus one deceived Eve. He confused and ensnared her using her own innocence and lack of guile against her. Playing upon her sympathies and her emotions Playing her like a violin
And yet she could have turned to her husband She could have certainly turned to the Divine Brotherhood Or was she so overcome by her emotions that she could not see clear to do so
Eve did not hate God, not at all And yet she was deceived by the snake
So that’s two different scenarios
In the first scenario The snake deceived one who was pure and good And who loved her husband and her God But became confused and fearful and entrapped by the snake And could no longer see clear
It was almost as though she was not of her own mind No longer in control of herself nor of her mind nor of her choices She was under his spell; under his power; under his influence Not because she had malice within her, not at all But because she was weak
And yes because of her first initial sin Of agreeing to not tell her husband of her conversations with the snake It was at that moment that she gave up her power The rest was an inevitability It followed in logical and natural sequence Her sin was in agreeing to not tell her husband of the snake For she had pity on the snake And chose her pity of the snake over her trust in her husband
Oh gosh. This is not easy is it You know what this tells me
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What darling
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That the 3rd scenario will also play out completely differently
It will not be the 1st scenario with Eve re-enacted It will not be the 2nd scenario with the Jewish leaders re-enacted It will be a different scenario
Fighting the last battle won’t work It will be a new battle. It will take a different form While the essence may be the same The form will be completely different We won’t be able to refer back to the previous scenarios And say oh this is what happened then We will recognize it now and will know what to do For it will happen differently It will happen completely differently It will be an entirely new scenario
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And what scenario will it be dear Close your eyes and be silent. Just close your eyes and be silent What scenario will it be
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Well, if I were a minus one My first strategy would be To wait until after Jesus had completed the training For I would know better than to oppose Jesus On the contrary, I would be the one with the most open face The clearest and most trusting eyes I would be the one hanging on to Jesus words Committing each one to memory So that I could use them later I would be his star pupil
And after the training is over Then my strategy would be to work on the remaining Way-Showers And to confuse them with Jesus’ own words To take Jesus’ words and twist them ever so slightly Just one degree off here And when that has been accepted Wait a while And then another degree off there
And my excellent memory of what Jesus had said Why I can recite his every word verbatim Would impress the others And they would defer to my skill and my superiority And though they would be confused They would know something was off There would be a vague sense of discomfort, of disquiet
Yet they would not be able to put their finger on it There would be nothing tangible for them to hold onto There would be no word they could rebut me with For I have all the words I have each one memorized And I have an answer, in Jesus’ own words To each and every one of their feeble objections And they would be confused And they would be forced to accede to me that I have the correct words That I have the correct logical answer While yet they are uncomfortable Something is wrong But they know not where Perhaps it is within them Perhaps they don’t remember quite right Perhaps it has been so long since they’ve seen the Lord That they don’t remember exactly right And I obviously do I was the star pupil then And I am the star pupil now And they repress that niggling doubt And THEY LISTEN TO ME!!! YES! They listen to me And basically the war is already won
Once they listen to me The rest naturally and logically follows The sheep have no chance For the shepherds themselves are leading them straight to the jaws of hell
YES!!! I HAVE WON I HAVE WON I HAVE WON Hah! Hah! Hah! I HAVE WON
And that is what I would do if I were the minus one in this scenario What would you do
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And what does this tell you
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Other than to throw my hands up in despair And go back to bed and lie under the covers and go to sleep Until God has it all sorted out And wake me up then and not a moment before
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Yes dear one, other than that. What does this tell you
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The need for me to be a star pupil while in training Committing each and every word to memory Also committing each and every nuance into every cell of my being Also committing each and every INTENT into my consciousness
So that I know and remember the Essential TRUTH beneath the words For this is essential. This is all important It is not an exercise in logic
One must understand; one must grasp One must completely and totally and fully understand the Lord’s INTENT
And one must do the exact same Regarding the ESSENTIAL TRUTH underneath the Lord’s Words
Yes one must memorize the words But one must also commit to the very core of one’s being The Essential Truths and the Intent and Purpose of the words
One must completely and totally understand the Lord’s message With one’s entire soul and with one’s entire mind And with one’s entire heart and with one’s entire strength
One must completely and totally and with one’s whole being Understand the Essence and the Truth of the Lord’s teachings
In addition to committing each and every word to memory
'So be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves’
And the shrewd as serpents part Is where we commit all the Lord’s WORDS to memory Each and every single one That way we can be shrewd too
Oh dear God Oh dear God Oh dear God
It’s something new every day isn’t it. You guys just keep throwing some new curve ball at me each new day
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We never said it would be easy
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And were you ever telling the truth! What else does having a negative one in our midst tell me What else should I know
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Say
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To be wary – of even my comrades To KNOW, to REMEMBER that one of the 12 is a Judas, a snake To remember this during the training and afterward To EXPECT it Forewarned is forearmed And to remember that And I think this might be the most important For you have told me you will ALWAYS be with me To remember that at the first sign of doubt, disturbance, or confusion I IMMEDIATELY turn to you For clarification; for wisdom; for insight For help, for getting me back on my path
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And how do you feel about the above
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I feel great about the - immediately turning to you at the first sign of disturbance part Hopefully all the immediately turning to you that I’m doing now Will have made it so that it is an automatic reflex And I no longer even think about it Just autopilot, there is the slightest hint that something is off Automatically and immediately turn to the Divine Brotherhood And stay with the Divine Brotherhood until I am comforted And they bid me leave
The part about being wary of my comrades That I do not like, not one little bit. No, not at all I’m not even certain it is a good idea Except that I need to be sure to keep my eyes and my ears on the Lord, and not on my fellows And likewise, after the training is complete I need to keep to my inner knowing; to the still, small voice within And not to the voices around me Not even to the voices of my fellow Way-Showers!
I do think I need to remember; to know; to EXPECT the minus one To KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt That there is a Judas among us I don’t know what my stance toward this should be I’m not sure I like the idea of being wary of my fellows What do you think
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What do you think
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I think I should go with my feelings
Who makes me feel most comfortable Who makes me feel ever more sure of myself and of my mission
And learn to recognize who it is that causes me to feel confusion and doubt Who it is that leaves me not trusting myself Who it is that undermines my self-confidence When I recognize this one person, I will have identified the Judas
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And then dear what will you do
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Avoid him at all costs Listen not to what he says Engage him not in dialogue Look not at what he shows me Interact with him not at all
I keep my feet on my path per the Lord’s instructions And I silently remind myself of all that I have been taught And I turn to you for counsel
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And your fellows
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I lead by example The only words I will tell them will be To remember the essence and the truth of Jesus’ message To trust their instinct and feelings To listen to the still, small voice within
and not to the voices without
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Will you identify the Judas to your fellows
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My thinking is that would be unwise. What is yours
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We wholeheartedly agree with you
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