May 12, 2004 - The King Ever Calls, The King Ever Loves
May 19, 2004 - Addressing Michael as Archangel Michael
May 19, 2004 - Disordered Dissolutions
May 21, 2004 - How It Was In My Time (Part 1)
May 22, 2004 - How It Was In My Time (Parts 2 & 3)
May 29, 2004 - The Very Best of Teachers

Received by Jim Young.

Thomas: "Jim, son of my heart, what occurred to you Wednesday night is an excellent point to always remember. You equated sin with not loving, for as John the apostle emphasized in his letters, love is of God. I reckon you could even say that God is love, but that’s almost too simple in some ways, even though it is quite true.

"The Creator’s love is creative unto eternity. The Father has loved and loves first, then everything revolves around that, so to speak. It was the Father’s creative love in saying "Let it be, as I AM" that initiated creation and still sustains it today. When you imitate God’s love, you are also imitating His creativity. You will be so very much more creative in your approach to His children when you use His creativity expressed best within the motivation of love.

"It follows then, that the more you can know and understand about the Unknowable, the more you know about God and the better job you’ll do in helping to bring forth the kingdom for Him within your physicality.

"I know I characterized God as the Unknowable. If that is puzzling to you, just remember that there is a great bridge between you and God-not from His side but from yours. After all, He is on your side. You are constantly being surrounded and bombarded by the deceptive illusions of physicality that is time and space. God certainly has no such restrictions placed upon Him, but He has in His great love, given you full access to Him.

"He has an open door policy. He has even sought you out. He has wooed you. He has sent His Very Own Personal invitation to you, constantly, and He still does. This does not mean to say you have not responded. Indeed, you have. But I know there have been right many instances where you either weren’t listening or did not understand things completely. That is simply because of the limitations you were designed with.

"Yes, you were created with flaws because you were meant to move ahead and rise above the limitations you have. They aid your growth, they help you learn how to serve others, and they help you develop the faith needed. That very faith which is a sure prerequisite for kingdom living, not just for this corner outpost of the kingdom where you and I hail from, but also the faith needed after you move into the kingdom’s Capital City as well.

"Jim, the King still calls. The King still loves. The King ever calls. The King ever loves. The more deeply you love, the more you will be completed in Him and by Him. The vineyard of souls awaits. Return His love by going out to work today in joyful praise for what you are becoming in Him, with Him and for Him.

"This is Thomas Curry Hawkins."

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Notes: There was a time when contact with the relatively recently departed was something only the extraordinarily gifted were capable of. This is no longer the case, due to the improvements to the channels (circuits). Thomas Curry Hawkins married my maternal grandmother, but died only 1 year into their marriage (1897 approximately). They had no children, and thus, I am not even related to him, yet there is this very deep bond Mr. Hawkins and I share.

Because of the requirement of parenthood for greater progression where he now resides, he has ‘adopted’ me as his son. He ‘speaks’ to me with many Southern mannerisms and attitudes, since he was a preacher’s son from Orange County, Virginia -- Jim.

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Received by George Barnard.

Bzutu: "Who would have thought this youngster could actually do very little for an extended period of time? It has been a welcome change from his behaving like a hunted animal, seeing the messages as ninety-nine percent of what is important in the job, and the messenger as of virtually no worth at all. Good evening to you both, this is Midwayer Chief Bzutu."

Geoff: "Good evening Bzutu."

Bzutu: "We were interested in your conversation the other day about who Michael really is. It is understandable, in the sense, that the many of bestowals of Michael as a Melchizedek, a Lanonandek Son, a Seraph, a Morontia Progressor, and so on, would become a confusing matter in time, even in the early years of the Christian Churches.

"It was, in fact, on some of these occasions that Gabriel took charge of Kingdom matters, if we might so call them. And, therefore, they were seen by some as interchangeable, of equal standing, both archangels. So much of the Master’s teachings did go astray in the early years of what became the Christian Churches. There were such large numbers of uneducated people-such a large number of recruits, who simply did not have the time or the capacity to take in the many lessons.

"Much was taught by word of mouth, and in fact much time went by before the scribes dutifully documented what might have been done much earlier. There was a knowing that the Christian Church should grow to cover the entire globe, but in people’s minds it became very much of a local issue. However, let me assure you that whenever and by whatever name you decide to address the Master, it will be fine by Him.

"Well now, this receiver has decided to make some drastic changes in his life, and I shall be there to remind him to carry through with his work, perhaps more efficiently, to throw aside those aspects of the job that can be handed to others. We shall see. We are still in the early, early stages of the Correcting Time. We are not yet counting on the world to beat an urgent path to your doors to learn all they need to know about Midwayers.

"Beyond the lifetime of this platoon, there will come forth many others in the English-speaking world, as indeed great activity is going on elsewhere. We on our part will do our very best to allow others in foreign countries to perceive the initial momentum we have created here, and to link up with us.

"You will find that as you make the connections there will be great variations in the concepts of their transmissions. You will be surprised, you will perhaps rejoice, and at times you will be aghast by the differences. All of them will be truth seekers, and all of the work will contain the co-creative, the human errors and flaws of reception. And so, you may at first not even recognize our combined efforts.

"Well, here perhaps is an opportunity to have some questions answered if my loudspeaker does not freeze up at this task. I greet you Geoff Cutler."

[End of Part One].

 
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Received by George Barnard.

Geoff: "I have a question. George seems to have very little experience of dark spirits, and the Urantia Book does not cover this issue, but I believe there are such entities, that I call dark or earth-bound. Can you tell me anything about these?"

Bzutu: "We knew long before this human was born that there would be an opportunity for us to work with him. We knew many things about the times to come. There was a great deal of "Paradise-generated" information that was handed to our chief, Machiventa Melchizedek, who, as you know, is here to fulfill Michael’s mandates.

"We have been extraordinarily protective of this receiver, and it is true that many "unfavorable" spiritual and Morontia entities were seen by him in the early years. They were capable of doing no more than listening in on our mind-to-mind communications, as he and his family were fully protected as per our agreement. [Pause] I have to now try to ‘unfreeze’ this receiver’s bones.

"Do irregularities still occur in this universe, on this planet? The answer is yes. The human being is a complex animal, and as this receiver understands the term, there is many a disordered dissolution. At this stage, anyone from Morontia Companions upward to Seraphim and other created personalities have no more opportunities to impact on human lives unless this is in some perverse way desired.

"What you might take into consideration is that, apart from our regular work, there is a cleanup going on that may still take us many decades in which further purification of the environment will be seen to. Does this answer your question?"

Geoff: "Thank you, yes, but I will have to think about it."

George (amused): "He’s telling me to sit up straight."

Bzutu: "Do I have all the answers in this matter? You might well ask. Indeed, I do. We midwayers have been in service on this planet for so many long years, and have learned a great deal about what is going on. Are we in fact capable of transmitting to you all of what we know? No, indeed, not by a long shot. However, there is an aspect with which this receiver is vaguely familiar, and that is the ‘donation’ each human life makes-a greater or lesser donation-towards the evolving time-space Deity that is called the Supreme God of Time and Space.

"Some of these energy bodies, for want of a better term, may be so ill-developed or immature as to be rejecting of assimilation with the Planetary Child of the Supreme. These are sometimes called astral, they are not morontial, and they are certainly not spiritual. They can be best described as being packages of intelligence. They are sometimes addressed as ghosts. Does this answer your question?

Geoff: "Yes but I think it may raise more questions. Many thanks."

Bzutu: "You are welcome. I, personally, as the leader of this one-time platoon of many celestials and just one human worker offer you my heartfelt thanks for looking after one of us, who has recently been sorely disappointed. Indeed you sensed the break was urgently needed. And I find a lot more life within this revitalized mouthpiece of many Celestials’ lessons, the larger number of which have been spot-on accurate, the lesser number of which have needed a going over by myself, Sharmon, Athena, or our dear friend, Mathew.

"If there are no further questions, I will bid you goodbye. Yes, most of our time these days is taken up on the battlefields. Much of our work has helped foil some terrorists’ plans. Goodbye for now."

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Received by Rebecca.

Joseph: "Because you grew up in Greece in the old ways of life, you are in a good position to understand what life was like in the time of Jesus. Even for those without wealth, the world was a beautiful place and life was good.

"Because the climate was not severe, a simple room to live in was fine. You know this from Greece-a one-room stone hut is a fine place to live. The air was clean. The water was clean. We could not imagine the way life is today, so noisy and dirty. We could not imagine the air and water ever becoming like it is today.

"The world now is full of sharp edges-loud noises, strong smells, bright lights, bold sugar tastes, sharp angles-every sense is affected. Back then, we could step out into the world with a sense of wellbeing, whether rich or poor.

"There was not such a contrast between rich and poor then, and there was not a dependence on needing money for all the necessities of life. It was more of a continuum between those who lived simply, and those who had much. What we had was derived from the earth and from our labor. The wealthy mainly had the benefits of more people’s labor. They had what the simple people had, but more of it, or a more refined version that took longer to make.

"We all wore the same robes, but the wealthy person’s robe took longer to make so it could be a finer weave of cloth. But if a poor person really wanted a finely woven robe, a woman could make one by setting aside the time to take longer on it herself. So nothing was really out of reach for anyone. The only things perhaps were refined oils and perfumes that the wealthy had.

"This continuum was in contrast to today, where there are things that a poor person cannot have no matter what they do. For example, a rich person can buy an expensive car but in many parts of the world, a poor person cannot get enough money to buy a car.

"We did not rely on money. What we needed we grew from the earth, like bread and wine, food, animals. Silver money was used for large purchases, like land or a flock. For other things, we exchanged and bartered. Even silver could be smelted from the earth, if a man knew how. Even an old and palsied man could refine silver, if he had the knowledge of how to do it. So nothing was really out of reach. Today people rely on money even for their food and a place to live, and this is hard for people. It is harder for people to know that the Lord provides for you, and they feel a lot of anxiety about striving to have enough money to provide the basics of life.

"In terms of health and medicine, people either healed or they didn’t. If someone was slightly or moderately injured, they would recover, and if they were terribly injured, they died. People were not able to go to such extraordinary lengths as today to keep someone alive even if he or she can’t really recover. In a way it was better not to have people stuck in compromised states in which they can’t die but they can’t function either."

Rebecca: "Who are you?"

Joseph: "I am Joses."

Rebecca: "Josephus?"

Joseph: "No, Joseph. Not the father of Jesus. I am Joseph the Younger."

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Received by Rebecca.

Joseph: "It would be good to write down what I told you before; how people loved the earth, and it provided for them. Write about bread and wine. People grew food, and the ones they could preserve were bread and wine. So bread and wine were always available. There were also oils, olives. The other foods were basically ‘catch as catch can.’ The other foods came and went from the diet."

Rebecca: "What about the Eucharist, the sharing of bread and wine?"

Joseph: "This was after my time. But I can tell you that the short answer is that some churches now use it, and some don’t, and either way is OK. To understand how it started, you have to understand the Judaic tradition, and what was going on at the time. There were rituals, feasts, and sacrifices offered at the temple. It was centralized and only certain people could go. Only certain people could perform the rites.

"Early on, Christians would get together in a circle, just five or six at a time sometimes, and hand around some bread and wine to say they were sharing the body and blood of Christ. This was to affirm their connection, to commune, and to remember Him. In this way they had their own simple ritual that they could do anytime and anywhere, using ordinary food they already had close at hand. So it was decentralized and they did not have to depend on anyone outside themselves.

"The other thing about this early Eucharist was that even if it was against the law to be Christian, even if they were trying to be unobtrusive, they could quickly gather anywhere, quietly share bread and wine, and there would be no evidence, no traces of the simple rite. They had simply shared a meal.

"It wasn’t that they were being bloodthirsty, or had a morbid fascination with Christ's death. In the context of how they were raised as Jews, it made sense to have a simple feast of remembrance. And then this was easy to share with non-Jews who didn’t know about all the other elaborate rules and rituals. Now that there are churches where people can gather openly, there is not the same need for it.

"Even though you have a very busy life, it would do you good to write this message down. It would do you good to receive messages sometimes, because you have a contemplative nature. You have a prayerful nature. Not having time for contemplation and prayer makes you unhappy."

Rebecca (Requesting to know his identity.)

Joseph: "I was born of the clan of David, of the village of Bethlehem. In those days, we kept track of our lineage through the patriarchal line. Do you want to know my whole life history? (Laughing). I was conceived and born of a woman, just as you were. I was an infant and then a young child. We lived communally, enjoying the land, as you know from Greece. When I was young I attended religion school and we learned to recite texts. Yes, Jesus was my older brother. He was much older, more like an uncle to me. When I was about three, he was about eighteen.

"He was always kind. He was quiet and serious, reverent, and peaceful. He was always inward, as if he was listening inward very intently. Yet he was quick to smile, and he was very handsome. Then came the days when I was older, when he was away traveling around and we heard amazing stories about events that had happened and what he had done. We were not sure what had come over him, what had become of him, and whether it was the same Jesus we knew.

Then came the terrifying days in which he was killed. We were afraid. He tried to tell everyone about God, and because he was not from the rich and powerful group at the temple, because he was from a simple village way of life, they killed him. He gave his life to tell people about God. And after he died, then we felt a strong light, the light of blessings, coming down upon us. Only then did we fully realize the power and truth of what he had been teaching and who he was. That was how we experienced it.

[At this point my daughter interrupted me. He promised more later.]

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Received by George Barnard.

George: "Hello dear Andrea."

Andrea: "It is good to be welcomed back into your … humble burrow, and a pleasure for me to plug into your swirling, twirling, whirlpool of a typical human mind, so much calmer now. And it is a delight for us to take time out from our immediate duties in a topsy-turvy world that is going through rather a rough patch right now. This is Andrea, who loves you.

"There is no doubt about your "temporary supervisor midwayers" having their job cut out for them in this worldly kindergarten, where so many strong-willed mortals all have their own ideas about how the planet, indeed, the entire universe, should be reorganized. It’s all in a day’s work for us, and nothing much surprises us anymore. No, hardly ever are we amazed by what you cute creatures think of next in your most pleasant dreams and worst nightmares while fully awake.

"We are making progress, my dear brother. We are making progress in the sense that we are attracting a great number of potential (human) contact personalities that are at long last discovering that there is a real meaning to the time-prompts we are giving them. At this time, I would like to speak in more detail about what is required for these contactees to attain a closer relationship with the surrogate Celestial Teachers that are giving them their time.

"Yes, my dear brother the term, "surrogate"-do not be surprised-is indeed correct. We, the midwayers, under the immediate direction of our angelic superiors, are merely poor substitutes for the most preferred, the most excellent, the most knowledgeable, and especially, the most loving of Teachers that are available to you. And even now, we are appreciative of the fact that many of your group’s newfound friends are quite unaware of their having the very best of Teachers indwelling them.

"I refer to the Fragments of the Creator of All, which share your lives around the clock, without let-up in your day-to-day living, and in happiness and despair, in your greatest joy and deepest regrets, and in your successes and failures. It is a faith-filled, balanced, and progressive life that will allow these Spirit Fragments from the Eternal Father, so patiently co-existing with you, to step aside and allow us, the lesser teachers, the experience to communicate with you.

"Indeed, although we highly prize your friendship, your love and cooperation, your dedication and embrace, we know we are only leading you into, and towards, an eventual ability to communicate with, listen to, compare notes with, learn from, and establish a loving relationship with the Paradise Source through the Gifts that are His Emissaries to all mortals in His time/space realms.

"Do follow your regimen of regular meditation towards the end goal of promoting yourself in this way, and to a point where you mortals may fully engage in communications with our Father’s Gifts to each and every one of you. I love you, my dear brother, admire your perseverance, and I will now step aside as another will speak with you directly. This is Andrea. May God bless our work, and allow our efforts to bear much fruit."

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