11:11 List 59

Posted August 24, 2004
Illawarra District, Australia, August 22, 2004.
Teacher Samuel.
Subjects: "Empathy, and a Third Possibility."

Received by George Barnard.

Samuel: "This is your teacher, Samuel. It gladdens my heart to have the opportunity to once again transmit with you, and have these lessons go to many more. Here with me are rather (quite) a few interested parties to observe, how this lesson will come across and be accepted, the accuracy with which we transfer our teachings to your ready mind, the end result of, perhaps, further prompting as you transcribe our cooperative work with your Midwayer friends. [See Note] This brief lesson deals with Empathy.

"It is in your human lives, these very important starting points of the eternal marathons you will run, that the most important of your character qualities, your personality endowments, those freely given to you all by the Father Creator, will be strengthened, be refined, mature. It is here, also, during your terrestrial lives that you will learn to undo, learn to overcome, and ideally become the victors over your inborn and acquired weaknesses to make your marathon runs resounding successes.

"Although we do not expect each of you to become the outright gold medal winner of this race, we do desire for you all to pass the finishing post of Father Fragment fusion, at some time. One of the greatest and most important gifts you may be endowed with within the over-arching ability to Love is that of Empathy, as we will now view it quite on its own. Empathy can in part be a natural gift, and it can also be, and often is, acquired, learned, grown or enhanced.

"Your imagination, when witnessing suffering of any kind, will allow you to place yourself in the position of the sufferer. Even when you are still young, you can momentarily see a person of greatly advanced age as you, yourself, being that sufferer. This is empathy, not pity per sé. When you are older, likewise, the obvious joy of an infant can register in your minds as your personally experienced happiness. This is empathy, sympathy, and it is also a measure, or reflection of, your ability to love and of soul growth.

"It is your ‘heart and soul’ that responds, instantly and intuitively, even before a conscious realization of your exact feelings is registered. In fact, you may never become fully aware of the precise feelings you are experiencing at the deepest of soul levels.

"It is healthy to have, and to use, this gift of empathy, unhealthy to dwell upon the pain of another for prolonged periods, but rather must you seek out solutions. And even if no immediate material remedy can be found, there is the Father to pray to, and request for suffering to be eased, yet always for His will to be done in His way.

"Do not, my friends, expect many miracles out of the blue, but know the Father has innumerable skilled helpers among His Angelic and Midwayer offspring, His Cherubim and even His Life Carriers, that may be ordered into action. Therefore action on your part, or sincere prayer for His help, is the preferable solution, rather than suffering with a sufferer as some extreme "empaths" do.

"Like most character traits, empathy often requires balancing or refinement, be it an innate or a developed gift. Where it is absent, or almost absent, there is yet a third possibility. You may pray for the receipt of this additional character trait as a brand new gift, for remember always that you are here on this earth to ready yourself with much assistance for the long run to eternal life, and whilst you may ask and shall receive.

"This is Samuel, ever in Michael’s service at your service. I leave you now."

Note: This transmission was indeed a stop-start effort, and I needed Midwayer help to "get it right" in a few places. Fatigue.

Posted August 28, 2004
Marietta, Georgia, US of A, August 24, 2004.
Phoduk the Elder.
Subject: "Even Stone Can Turn To Dust."

Received by Rebecca.

Phoduk: "I am Phoduk the Elder. I am an ancient scribe. My job was to follow the Pharaoh and take down what was dictated to me. For fast writing, we took a stick dipped in water and wrote in the dust. Later, we chiseled it into tablets of stone. This was not as hard as you think, but it took time.

"All day long, I was bent over my tasks. There were so many words to record, and it took so long to do so. Sometimes my whole face and clothing were covered with dust. I had to breathe the dust. Then I was bent over the tablets for many long hours. I was entirely dedicated to preserving words.

"The trick was to let the words flow through from ear to hand directly, without thinking about the meaning, in order to go fast enough. You know this trick already, I believe. I’m not telling you anything new. Although the position of a scribe was somewhat lowly, the Pharaoh needed me and others like me, to turn his great words to stone and give them immortality.

"Oh, but when I survey the world I see that great, great numbers of them have been lost. Oh, woe! Yes, I was an archivist too, and it still throws me into a state of panic to see so many lost. Only a tiny fraction remains. Even stone can turn to dust. So you see, you must spend your time on soul development. Only soul development lasts forever. You are not perfect as a scribe, as I was nearly perfect, but you have done well. I will return."

© 11:11 Progress Group
Toujours au Service de Michael

Posted August 28, 2004

[The transmission below is in response to a subscriber’s suggestion that all aspects of what we discern as "ego" are meant to diminish and finally disappear entirely as we progress in a spiritual sense.]

Illawarra District, Australia, August 25, 2004.
Teacher Samuel.
Subject: "The Ego, an Essential Commodity."

Received by George Barnard.

Samuel: "I want to talk with you today about language, and how over lengthy periods, at times quite short intervals, the meanings of certain terms and words tend to go through ‘concept changes.’ Yes. Your living languages do change, and individual words and terms can change, shift in meaning, to be understood as something different entirely. ‘Justice done’ is one such term.

"It is most often used in relation to appropriate punishment having been meted out, less often cited in cases of due rewards being granted, or wrongs that were done to someone being righted. This is Samuel, and the subject to be touched upon today deals with the Ego. The concept, ‘Ego,’ is one such term that has undergone this subtle shift in meaning, at least in common use. But there is nothing wrong with ego. It is in fact an essential commodity, and an integral part of the personality.

"The term, Ego, is generally viewed in a negative light-egotistical, a big ego-you know these terms. And where it concerned your ancient ancestors, "big egos" might well have made the difference between survival and extinction. Yes, ego plays its role in ‘survival of the fittest,’ if we can here borrow Darwin’s words, and ego is important to the individual, as well as to the family and even to the extended group.

"It is all throughout your terrestrial journey that ego plays an important role as a survival mechanism. Likewise is it essential in your ages upon ages of morontial (pre-spirit) lives, for it allows you to more clearly discern fairness. A more balanced ego will openly and honestly compare, ‘would this be fair to me, therefore might it be fair to another,’ as your free-will prerogatives will place you in positions of having to make bigger and more important decisions.

"All throughout your eternal career and unto Paradise will you be students at one stage, teachers at another, or both, simultaneously. It happens! And at all times must you treat another correctly, fairly and courteously, as you would wish to be treated by them. Without an ego that will constantly question, assess, "how would I feel in the other person’s place’ it would be obvious that one would frequently be unfair, discourteous, or act incorrectly.

"There is now no great secret about our projected function(s) in the outer universes as they come online and will be inhabited. Our function(s) there are hardly revealed, but certainly obvious. There, inevitably, you will be dealing with those much lower on the evolutionary rungs. Both, a clear memory of your terrestrial ‘moments,’ and a ‘shining’ and perfected ego will be essential.

"Ego is an indispensable ‘good-for-all-time’ Gift of your Creator Father, Who gives, and gives, and gives, more and more and more, and takes nothing away. It is a part of the personality that, like so many other personality aspects, must be honed till it is sharp, tuned till it rings true, shined till it glows. Let no one rob you of a balanced ego.

"This is Samuel of Panoptia, feeling evermore honored to be part of your 11:11 platoon. My love goes with you all."

George: "Thank you Teach."

Posted September 2, 2004
Cheshire, UK, August 31, 2004.
Teacher Katrina.
Subject: "Dance."

Received by Helen Whitworth.

Katrina: "I am glad you have opened your channel to me tonight and I bid you ‘Hola!’ with a wide grin and beaming eyes. I am indeed female, which I know surprises you a little, and am related to the one you know as LN (Ellen). My name is Katrina, but that is just good as a label for now.

"The purpose of my visitation is to tell you of the nature of dance. Dance is a most beautiful art form to practice as it allows the integration of spirit into your own physical vehicles.

"In art forms like drawing or music this spirit is still experienced but it flows through you and then is captured into a physicality outside of yourself, however temporal. With dance, the vehicle of physical manifestation is your own body. This allows you to fully experience the frequencies from other vibrations directly; clothing yourself within them.

"By allowing full flow, full freedom of expression in the dance, you remind your body, the most solid of your bodies, that it, too, is of God and through that remembrance it begins to glow with that fusion caused when all that is divine is present in the deepest levels. From that point too, the energies can easily rise up again, cloaking your astral and etheric, mind and soul bodies in the beauty of that light.

"It is inner healing and through that process many blocks are removed until all that is you shines brightly and in fun. So Dance, my friends. Throw care to the wind, and allow yourself the sacred, joyous moments of being all that you are in a physical form.

‘ . . . With bells on her fingers and bells on her toes, she will make music wherever she goes . . .’

Note: Ellen is a teacher I have met twice in Out of Body Experiences. She is fair and looks delicate, almost waif-like, but she has great strength in mind and body. Katrina presented herself here in my mind’s eye in a long blue dress with long dark hair, but similar elven-like features to Ellen, if a little more robust. I believe I may have glimpsed her before in meditation, but cannot be sure it is the same woman. They are both beautiful.