Subject: “The Better of Two Options.” (Or the Least of Two Evils.)
Received by George Barnard.
Samuel: “I’m with you my dear friend and student. My love and respect for you dwells in my heart, my mind and my soul. It is a blessing for me to be with you through good times and bad in this ‘marker’ of the twelfth year of our association, even though for the greater time of our liaison you remained oblivious to the source of this regular input.
“Be assured that for us both all our time together has been of great value, as we each managed to progress in our age-long endeavor to eventually reach a state of total perfection. One could hardly imagine a greater contrast between our home worlds. For the likes of me, having grown up in an environment in the middle stages of Light and Life, it an amazing learning experience to dwell in your neighborhood and to perceive the goings on in a world still chaotic in its ways.
“To have lived in an environment where goods, services, ideas and intellectual property were freely shared, it has been an eye-opener for me to visit a civilization where little is shared without it requiring payment of some kind. I have found a culture where patents are awarded for discoveries dealing with essential, survival commodities such as food and medicine, and where even common language needs to be trademarked and copyrighted.
“We witness your modes of operation, your ways of doing things, and in almost all instances you must choose the better of two or more options, and, or, often the lesser of two or more evils, to survive in this world. And it is the fear of non-survival, and the need to jealously protect self, by individuals and corporations alike that have set the tone for abundance for each to be siphoned off into the overflowing ‘portfolios’ of the few.
“These circumstances make it difficult to live an ideal life, yet against the rather ideal model that is my world, I point out the enormous advantages of yours. In almost all you do there are choices, decisions to be made about the best ways or the lesser evils, and these decisions build character and strength, which is much less likely to be invested in on more regulated spheres.
“Countless, countless are the universe creatures that feel for you when you lose. Vast is the number of our Father’s progeny that rejoice, and cheer you on when you win. Myriad are your siblings that envy you your status on this world, that so cultivates the leaders, the decision-makers, yes, the politicians for His ever-expanding universes.
“Your opportunities for progression, for learning, and for the further development of character bring to my mind the expression “fabulous.” Few worlds in the local system will allow an individual to gain such a major head start in the process of ascension as is available to you on your world.
“You might surely visualize the near ideal workings on the planet from which I hail. And still, there is every reason for your citizens to fare well on your world, where one must so frequently weigh up the greater good, to find the nearest, although often-still blemished best way to go about any project..
Be assured that in your rejoicing over a victory, and your despair about a failure, there are always the likes of me who will ‘look over’ your lives, your wins and losses and wish that for their career starts such a trying, learning time could have been had.
“Do stay with the battle. There are countless beings that are monitoring the progress, the dedication, and the sizeable results of your cooperative endeavors that will help bring your world into Love and Light.
Charmed to be here, and pleased to add my contribution to Andrea’s recent lesson, this is Samuel. I send my love to all.”
The 11:11 Progress Group Try coming out of the shadows, a little at the time—TA.
Corlette, New South Wales, Australia, June 14, 2009.
Teacher: Samuel of Panoptia.
Subject: “Blissfully Unaware of an Eternal Command (2).”
Received by George Barnard.
Samuel: “Your analytical minds are so used to breaking down concepts into logical fragments that you will miss the overall point here, it may well go right over your head. You will then remain blissfully unaware of the fact that you were meant to deduct from just a single command all aspects of ethical behaviour you are expected to be living by. I clarify that you were charged to be perfect, even as your Creator Parent is perfect in all ways, unchanging. You were charged to become perfect -- at some point be perfect – because it cannot happen overnight.
“The Creator loves all offspring equally and unconditionally, and you are to become, and will be, like the Creator, perhaps around the time when you are allowed to leave time-space to henceforth dwell in eternity, perhaps before, and yet for now you – imperfect creatures in an imperfect world – must contend with what ‘catch 22 time-space’ occurrences bring you. They bring you personal experiences, which those beyond time-space must do without. They bring you regular situations in which you must choose, as you so often call it, ‘the lesser of two evils,’ and being forced to make ‘the least doubtful of two decisions.’
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“In order to grow you must interact, not live in isolation, and when interacting you must come to decisions, constantly. In making decisions you cannot always be perfect by acting in favor of all concerned, and hurting no one. That is the message I bring to you; that you cannot always be perfect, but that you will become perfect in time, merely because of your experiences and thereby having learned, and knowing the difference.
“In your time-space striving for perfection – indeed by seeing all others as a part of the Creator – as indwelt by Fragments of the Creator – you will reach a point where you will be able to love all others as you love the Creator, and hurt no one, not even in the least. Few would disagree with you, and certainly not I, that your wondrous earth is the toughest of testing grounds in which to uphold His one, single, basic command. Weary not, and accumulate your valiantly earned soul credits.
“Consider finally, my friends and students: You need not ten commandments to live by, nor five, but just the one. I say au revoir for now.”
f">Corlette, New South Wales, Australia, June 13, 2009.
Teacher: Samuel of Panoptia.
Subject: “Blissfully Unaware of an Eternal Command.”
Received by George Barnard.
Samuel: “Human viewpoints, compared to those of your Celestial Teachers, do vary a great deal. You may see an individual as greatly more, or sadly less, capable at his or her trade, art, or profession. He may be more eloquent in speech.. She may be a better mother, cook or carer. As human beings, intimately informed about your immediate environment, you may well observe incredible differences between one member of your family and another.
“This is Samuel the Panoptian. Celestial viewpoints do not vary all that much. In the eyes of those who have already existed in time-space for thousands upon thousands of years, you are much the same – the babes of the universe – spiritual potentials – newbies only just lining up at the starting gate to spirituality. Credit is given where credit is due on all scores, sure enough, but spiritual leanings and soul-progress are seen as most important.
“Spiritual progress is what the universes are all about, and to what degree you see yourself as part of the whole, thus part of God, yes, the Creator Him/Herself, may well be your point of reference, as being indicative of your personal progress. Generally, only in retrospect and as you mature, will you discern a move, a progression, towards spirituality, and it involves an awakening of a kind.
“Let us consider one of the important rules you have been given, and may not sin against, whatever accepted mores,’ common sense, or religious dogma was your original starting point: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ Let us be generous here, and call it: ‘Thou shalt not harm thy brother, or sister, in any way.’ Chances are you live in a democracy of some kind, and to a degree you control, by whom you are voting for, whom you will be governed by. Is your leader, he or she, of a warfaring nature?”
“Together with the credit you may take for your earnest vote, accept also the responsibility in the instance killing is done on your behalf. You may have been blissfully unaware of this resposibility in the past, but are you so now? In your spiritual progress towards total perfection, even the thought of harm done to another, any other, will be a challenge to the broader meaning of ‘Thou shalt not kill..’ Clearly, even a wishing for the urgent demise of those who are producing the present worldwide unrest, does dispute this eternal command.
Samuel: “It is an aspect of your human-ness that for countless millennia you were the hunter as well as the hunted. It is a trademark of your human-ness that you can be fearful even when there is no danger lurking. It is typical of the human minds to be alert, constantly assessing the environment for possible danger. And so, for millennia and millennia, it has been ever so typical of your mortal minds to dart to and fro in the process of digging up experiences of the past, and with preference those events that were unkind, those that were not appreciated, and those that made you feel sad, hurt, troubled.
“This is Samuel, bringing you a short lesson that could easily have come from our dear (cherubim) friends, ‘I’ll be Frank’ and Alice. It is an aspect of your human-ness to think back of your yesterdays, and like a vehicle with an impaired steering ability, you will drift back into the deepest ruts of the saddest experiences of your past..
“Although this has been mentioned many times before, it is important that you happily live for the present, that you cheerfully project the future, and that you ‘wisely’ learn from the past, without expending a great deal of time on those things that are irretrievably lost, and well beyond correction.
“There is a simple remedy for your darting minds that can focus so strongly on the unacceptable, and that is for you to forgive and to forget. You can never be one hundred per cent in control of your environment, in control of the things that come your way, or in control of other people’s actions, words and deeds.
“And so, it is good for you to live in the present, and to project your life, your lives, into the future, and the way to go about it is to forgive, forgive, forgive, until all is forgotten, and you can carry on with your lives in a more positive way.
“This is a short lesson for many, because it is much the human trait to let one’s mindal vehicle drift into the deepest, most de-pressed ruts.
“I am Samuel of Panoptia. I thank you for your attention. You are good students, and a pleasure to work with. I say Adieu.”
Candace: for those newer here, Samuel had his soul origin on Panoptia, the planet discussed in the Urantia Book where the people did NOT join the lucifer Rebellion, although some of their celestials did.
