MICHAEL – MAY 26, 2003
Greetings. This is Michael. What you are about to experience
is an enhancement of your perception of more human complexities
of my personality. As you know, I was able to perfect my human
thoughts and desires to be in accordance with my indwelling
Father Fragment. And you, by your study of your Urantia text
or by your own internal longings and desires, are now ready
to appreciate these deeper perceptions. I am here to bring
this to you as your mind increasingly expands to the truth.
Human life can be simplified into two domains of choices:
doing that which serves your own self-interest, or doing that
which serves the wisdom of the Father’s plan. One is
essentially a component of the animal nature; the other an
expression of the divine working through you.
Where, in your thinking and feeling, have you found it to
be the most difficult in following the Father’s will
for you? Each of you will have a certain unique way where
you feel a conditioned reflexive response that is a part of
your rudimentary animal nature; that interferes with your
higher desire to do the Father’s will. See if you can
identify that place within you. (Pause) Now if you have a
perception of this, ask me how to overcome this; ask me to
share with you how I overcame the very same thing that you
are experiencing. Invite me into your mind now and let my
presence, my truth illuminate you. (Pause)
You see, my children, I shared the same evolutionary struggles
of life as you do. How well I understand, how well I appreciate
what you must undergo as part of your growth—part of
your spiritual development—that will free you from the
trappings of this raw animal nature. You may, in your struggles,
come to me for guidance and understanding. You may ask questions
of me to teach you the higher response and the more spiritually
fragrant behavior that will charm your fellows, inspiring
them by your goodness.
I did not walk through my human life alone. My Father became
such a pivotal companion at a certain point in my development
that it was inconceivable to me to embark upon any life decision
without having “a little talk with my Father who is
in Heaven.” And so you too, like me, have this added
benefit of coming directly to me, not only as your Creator-Father,
but as your human brother as I understand the conditions of
this planet and I am familiar with the particular mind type
of Urantians.
Tonight, as you gain a greater perception of my influence
within you, I ask you to consider using me as your guiding
inspiration to follow the Father’s will. I trod where
you are now walking. I paved the way for you to achieve this
just as I did. So this path on which you traverse is not one
for you to walk alone. I am your constant companion. I am
your source of inspiration and encouragement. What will your
choice be?
Now, take this time, ask Mother—your Heavenly Creative
Minister within your mind— to weave these words of mine
into your being; to inlay them, to activate them as a stimulant
for greater soul growth. Feel Her presence as She weaves this
into you, threading the fibers of wisdom into the looming
consciousness of me. (Pause)
My presence within you is a constant source of companionship.
The question you must ask yourself: Will I turn to Michael
as my father, as my brother, as my friend? I know in your
hearts your answer. I understand the shortcomings you face.
In coming to me as you face your shortcomings, you will be
educated from both the human and divine perspective of the
situation in seeking my counsel and availing yourself of my
wisdom and guidance. You may now give voice to your comments
when you feel so compelled to speak.
Student: Thank you, Michael, for your presence tonight. As
always, I seem to find the answers here in your presence and
in the stillness. Thank you for your patience and your forgiveness
and your acceptance. I’m trying to understanding to
why I feel the need to take a vacation from such goodness.
The other thing troubling me is the profoundly complex question
of politics and the use of military force. I don’t want
to ask you about that – you’re pointing the way
toward having an open mind on these matters, and it’s
too complex to go into. I hope to understand these matters
as they apply to different situations just by trying to be
open to all the various points of view, and perhaps to call
on you when my advice and opinions is asked by my friends;
simply because of my age and military experience. Thank you
for your comfort.
Michael: The complexity of this world’s situations
can be best simplified by knowing that the Father’s
plans have not yet been fully instituted in the hearts and
minds of the residents therein. This aggressive, self-serving
animal nature triggers raw primitive survival responses that
when you couple ideological differences into the equation,
create the potentials for war and war-like behavior.
You have earlier in your comment also identified the same
struggle within you – why you must vacation from goodness.
It is this raw nature that is now somewhat rebelling against
those potentials within you that have yet been totally activated.
This, my child, is perfectly acceptable. It is a natural process
that you are undergoing, as it is the stimulus for you to
choose how you will live. After a time you will get tired
of having this vacation from goodness, and your spirit within
you creates that feeling of uncomfortableness that will stimulate
you to again choose the better way. Do you recall how important
it is for you to make choices as part of your soul growth?
Student: Yes, I constantly pray for self-honesty so that
even if I cannot follow the right way, I can always be aware
of what it is.
Michael: And as you grow more spiritually mature, you will
find that it will not be enough just to know what the better
way is, but to actually choose to do it – to become
it, to realize it, and thereby fully actualizing those potentials
within you. Your brethren are at varying stages in their development.
Some people are still entirely rooted in their raw animal
behavior, but most are somewhere in between in this process
of becoming living vessels of the Father on the planet. Is
it your choice how much you wish to develop in this lifetime.
This is why my presentation to you this evening was given:
to help you in those extra miles of circle attainment for
you to find the Father within. Has this answered your question
this evening?
Student: Yes, Michael, you definitely read what was in my
heart this evening. I just recently read one of your visits
here I missed. You mentioned in the context of gardening,
not only the sunshine and water, but also the necessity of
pruning. I have been trying to take that to heart. I feel
at times I’m rather bushy and shapeless and a bit shy
of the pruning. But I know in my heart it is necessary.
Michael: Bare your human nature to me and your Mother. In
reality, you cannot hide this from us, for we are intimately
acquainted with every thought that you formulate within you,
with every feeling you enjoy or disdain. In presenting yourself
for pruning to us, you are simply allowing yourself to grow
more beautiful. It is this simple. Present each unlovely branch
or thorn to us in faith—in anticipation—of what
will grow out of it. Be joyful that you have developed the
requisite trust that allows such a choice as this to occur
for you. The more you present yourself to us, the more beautiful
you will become. If you feel this resonate deep within your
soul, why would you ever shy away from it?
Student: I know you mean that rhetorically and it has no
answer, except that it is a bit of a mystery. I think we can
get so caught up in the mystery of why we avoid the good that
it is simply better just to drop it and let it be a mystery.
Michael: But the mystery is a place of faith. It is where
you activate your faith. If the mystery is being avoided,
then my question to you, my son, is have you asked for your
faith to be stimulated and increased?
Student: My faith is accepting your understanding...my understanding
from your point of view of this animal nature where I have
spent so much of my life striving for a oneness in acceptance.
I perceive even in the animals around me the infinity of the
Father. I’m reluctant to accept this thing called ‘animal
nature,’ but I do accept it on faith as a way of understanding
something. But I do not yet understand it. It seems like a
bag to put all negative things in. All my life I’ve
hesitated to give that reality. And yet I must admit that
there is something that rebels. That is the quandry....my
faith is in accepting this vision that started with Welmek
and the teachings. I’m slowly getting a feeling of what
you mean of ‘animal nature.’
Michael: These words are presented to stimulate certain ideas
in your mind of transcendent growth. Had you been created
as an animal such as a dog or a horse, you would hardly be
aware of the potentials of the divine within you. Animal life
is part of the Father’s plan and so is human life. For
the purpose of this exercise this evening, the qualitative
distinction being made here is that there are certain endowments
you have inherited of animal nature that does not befit a
growing son of the Father, a child of divine dignity and destiny.
In presenting yourself for pruning, you are allowing that
which does not befit you to be transformed into something
more exquisitely useful, spiritually fragrant, cosmically
real that is a certain reflection of an attribute of the Creator
in Paradise.
This step by step ascension progression is well outlined
in your text. Now is the time of actual attainment of putting
forth in motion that transformational pruning process of outgrowing
those evolutionary potentials and actualizing your divine
destiny. Is this more clarified now?
Student: Yes, Michael. I think where you mean animal nature,
I think of specific terms of greediness, complusiveness, short-sightedness,
etc. Is that what you mean of the animal nature? That there
are all of these possibilities what we outgrow. I think my
concept of human freedom is that they are always there, but
as the text says, they do not have to be expressed.
Michael: The negative attributes you identified are a distortion
of the potentials of the Father’s attributes operating
within you in an unspiritized mindal environment. What I am
referring to in speaking of the animal nature is a certain
hereditary endowment that you share with your animal ancestors
that you are outgrowing. Animal nature does not change. Human
behavior, human ideas, human free-will choices grow you out—move
you forward—from that which you share with your animal
ancestors. You may not fully appreciate the purpose of animal
life and why it is so important for humans to outgrow this.
But it is part of the larger plan of the Father in this fundamental
gradation of intelligence leading from the most basic forms
of physical matter moving up from all the various levels to
the divine, sublime, perfect essence of Spirit Source. That
which you share with your animal ancestors, you will find
at some point in your life is no longer useful to you.
Go within and seek guidance. Spend time in spiritual inquiry
and asking for a greater expression truth as to the purpose
of animal life as it impacts human spiritual growth. Allow
what you have come to identify in your own mind to be overshadowed
with the truth of God’s plans, and you will see more
clearly that which is your divine destiny. Do you understand
this, my son?
Student: Yes, I do. You have a wonderful succinct, direct
way that I treasure the transcripts of our discussions, Michael.
You are sometimes so succinct, so precise that it’s
hard to hold. It’s a treasure to read and re-read. Thank
you.
Michael: My dear child, you are making good progress as you
expand into the mystery of cosmic growth and spirit attainment.
Enjoy this time of growth more even though those annoying
habits that you still retain irritate you. Truly, this is
your opportunity to go within and to present these to me and
your Mother for transformation to the eventual point that
you can find one of these annoying habits and say: “Oh,
goody, there is another one I can be relieved of.” This
is our delight to help you overcome. It is only your choice
that thwarts us from doing this for you. Keep growing, keep
presenting yourself for pruning, and you will be overjoyed
with the beauty you see emerging from your soul. My blessings
of peace and love are upon you now. (Thank you.) (Pause)
Student: Last week when Mother and I spoke about self-justification—that
it keeps me from feeling the presence of the Father within
me, there is real strong wall keeping the Father from fully
enveloping me. During this week I really felt it—felt
that defense within me. I saw it play out in my daily life.
It feels so hard to let go of—it’s so real—that
self-justification, that I hardly know what to do with it.
It’s so strong in my body and psyche. This morning something
else was bothering that added edge to my personality: a sense
of indignation and self-righteousness—when people hurt
other people either knowingly or unknowingly. I have a hard
time with people who profess to be spiritual or religious
and be humble servants of God, yet their words do not represent
that. This feeling of self-righteousness comes up within me.
I want to reprimand them, especially when they hurt children.
So all these feelings come up within me. I was thinking, how
would Jesus handle that self-righteousness, self-indignation,
and self-justification? I feel them so strongly within me.
Michael: (in a very gentle and loving tone) Who are you to
judge? Who are you to look into men’s hearts and to
pronounce your sense of standards upon them? I want you to
ask this question of yourself now.
Student: I’ve asked that question because I know I’m
not perfect.
Michael: Would you wish to be judged by your own standards
when you are acting less than perfect? Why would you wish
to subject someone else to this harsh judgement when you yourself
would not wish to be diminished by it? This is your opportunity,
my son, to come into that place of desire to know another
person from the Father’s perspective. How do you think
I was able to handle something as horrific as my hours of
judgement and crucifixion without judging my accusers? It
was only from this enhanced vantage point that I could look
down upon them and say, “Father, forgive them, they
know not what they do!”
The attitude of self-justification is one of the fundamental
barriers for you to truly see this from the Father’s
vantage-point. Here becomes a valuable choice for you. Which
is more to you: your self-justification or seeing this from
the Father’s vantage-point? Only you can answer this.
Student: What I noticed when I experienced that this week
of how it keeps me from fully experiencing the moment and
appreciating those other persons or myself, it feels so old.
I mentioned to Mother that it feels so primal.
Michael: It is a familiar defense posture that you have taken
deep within you. But now, my son, have you found it is time
to step aside from this and into a greater perspective of
the Father? The first thing you can undertake is to ask yourself
the question of this choice. Once you have made this question
through sincerity, in true honesty and humility, ask your
Mother to frame a new idea within you of adding more weight
and substance into seeing it from the Father’s perspective.
Ask for an expansion of this ever so slightly to increase
your understanding. Then you will find that as you do this,
the weight that holds the lure of the self-justification will
gradually recede or release its control over you. You will
emerge into God’s viewpoint and begin to see the world
from His eyes. Take your time. Feel the weight. Feel the control
that this has on you. Go into your desire to be a living expression
of the Father, and ask for this greater perspective to stimulate
new feelings of love and joy and understanding. This will
take some time as you identify more fully with seeing things
as the Father see it. Call on me, call on your Mother, and
we will be there to help you shed the old skin of judgement
and justification as you see more clearly through the Father’s
eyes and through the Father’s heart. Do you feel you
are now ready for this, my son?
Student: Yes, I am, because I do not like this unsavory feeling
within my being. It seems to be really accentuated these past
two weeks where I can see it face to face. I never even really
knew it existed so dominant in my being! I don’t now
like its feeling—I do not like how it sees the world
through the layers of judgement. Because ultimately, I’m
judging myself.
Michael: And so, now you are ready to emerge from this unlovely
characteristic that has been operating within you. We are
here to help you overcome this, and know that your victory
is imminent now. Here again, this is your choice.
Student: There’s only one choice.
Michael: Have you any other comments?
Student: No, that’s enough for now. Thank you.
Michael: Dear children, these habits, characteristics, and
tendencies that you find annoying are all worthy of translation:
rebirth through transformation of the Mother’s action
within your mind creating new levels of the Father’s
love, the Father’s loving character within you. Come
to me more joy-fully in presenting these habits, tendencies,
thoughts that you find troubling. I will help you overcome
each and every one of them. There is no limit of the help
I can provide to you.
Let this evening’s lesson and experience stimulate
you more. Come in to me and think of me in desiring to be
free. Will you honor me by allowing me to assist you more
fully? Will you honor your Mother by coming to Her to each
day and asking for Her purifying action to release you from
all these troubling habits? The light of our love is waiting
to shine forth through you with greater translucency and magnificence,
so you can too provide the way for others to find the healing
in their souls that they crave.
Realize, my children, you are not doing this merely for yourselves,
and how this will help you brothers and sisters, how this
will transform this planet. See this more as part of your
cosmic responsibility and one of the duties of being a child
in the family of God. But it is a duty of joy and light-heartedness.
And the freedom that you will feel from the release from the
old as you take on the clothing of the divine will be nothing
short of sublime. The choice is yours, my children. Choose
wisely. Good evening.
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