The Teaching Mission A New Foundation of Spirituality for a Quickening Planet Volume Two LIVING IN THE AURA OF LOVE A compilation of topical Celestial Teacher lessons and human commentaries on spiritual connections and loving service Editor: Jim Cleveland Contributors: Michael Painter, Daniel Raphael, Mary Livingston, with Christ Michael and scores of Celestial Personalities. (publisher information) !ii Each human must embark on his own spiritual quest. Each person must discover for himself those spiritual values and moral certainties born of true spiritual experience. Society may be stabilized by religious systems, but the individual must discover spirit individually in order to make spiritual progress. Society then can only move forward in the spirit by the movement of each individual religionist finding his own way amid the murky, moral milieu of the modern age. — Ham, November 28, 2004, Woods Cross Group, Utah Love one another. Realize that yours is an eternal career of beauty and adventure if you will but choose to follow the Father’s will. Our task is to assist you in knowing that will, in perceiving that desirability. We do not coerce; we merely whisper in your ear when you are assessing choices, reminding you to consider not the desires of the ego, but your ability to contribute, in all cases of choice, to the greater good of your fellows. —Emmanuel, a personal guide, Pittsburgh, May 24, 1993 The time we spend in meditation with our God Fragment is as needful for the soul as is sleep for the physical body. Without it, the body becomes dysfunctional, erratic, unresponsive, and thought processes get out of order, and at some point, the body must then succumb to sleep for its very existence. So too does the soul need this time alone to communicate with the Creator through the Thought Adjuster, to continue to grow at a healthy rate, process higher thought, receive guidance, review options, express desires, express gratitude, and receive Divine Love -- the life force that sustains all life. —Ophelius, 11.11 Progress Group !iii This is a wonderful opportunity for your technologies to learn how to conserve water, how to live stingily on the resources that you have, whether it is water or petrol or any of the other limited products. It is this particular time in your world that the Correcting Time has occurred, the most opportune time for great change, with a great number of souls on your planet. This is a very productive time for soul growth for individuals and for the planet. The Correcting Time is doing very well; it is now invested in almost all spheres of human activity on your planet, in all nations. There is almost no human activity that is not involved, is not impregnated with these Correcting Time changes. You can anticipate more agitation and difficulties in areas of human activity and endeavor before they begin to settle. —Rayson, March 2, 2012, Northern Colorado God shall be always with you. He is in your hearts, He resides in your mind. He is there to comfort you and to give you strength. He is the thread of infinity in which you bask. When all things fail that string will be constant. You shall follow it to Paradise where you will find all things real and true. Life, as you know here on this planet, will seem like a dream in which you vaguely floated along. —JarEl, Arcadia CA, April 22, 2009 It is true, times of change are upon you. The network of light is in place. The times for repeating mindless old patterns is passing. It is the dawning of the age of equality, equality of the sexes, equality of economics, political equality, religious equality. You stand on the precipice, the threshold to the dawning of this new age, an age which will demand your full attention and awareness to project through your consciousness a greater way of being, a way which is honorable in how it acknowledges and respects others. —Serena, August 11, 2013, Northern Idaho !iv This Teaching Mission, this Correction Time, has been initiated as an emergency measure, designed to restructure your mental environment. As this is being accomplished, as this evolves, you will more efficiently perform the many services needed to bring your lost brothers and sisters back to the fold. Here they will be able to share in the abundances of all things good. The Father's love which you have been experiencing and growing within yourself shall be the most powerful means to awaken those unfamiliar with this blessing. Share this love, share your knowledge of this love. Love eradicates fear, love lifts up your heart, love lightens your load, love brightens your day. Your living faith in the Father's continual love can and shall overcome all obstacles, overcome all deficiencies and will finally and gloriously lead you home. —Norson, a Melchizedek, in Hawaii, July 16, 1993 Know that this is a highly cooperative enterprise. Even the Father Himself is involved. And through the indwelling spirit and through the angels of ministry, especially your guardian angels, and through the teachers and through the leaders of the mission, and even those who are responsible for opening these power circuits incrementally so that these lessons and inspirations, heightened awareness, heightened consciences can come through. With each incremental opening of these energies, periodically we sit back in awe and wonder what events they may foment upon your world. Sometimes disruption will heighten awareness that will lead to genuine spiritual growth. —Tarkas, March 24, 2002 in Cincinnati From The Urantia Book: "This training of mind and education of spirit is carried on from the worlds of human origin up through the system mansion worlds and the other spheres of progress associated with Jerusem, on the seventy socializing realms attached to Edentia, and on the four hundred and ninety spheres of spirit progress encircling Salvington. On the universe headquarters itself are numerous Melchizedek schools, the colleges of the Universe Sons, the seraphic universities, and the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Union of Days. Every possible provision is made to qualify the various personalities of the universe for advancing service and improving function. The entire universe is one vast school." !v IMAGE CREDITS Front and back cover: James Leese, Florida Image credit: Digital Juice (royalty- free) Images, title: “Divine Sky” Image credit: Digital Juice (royalty- free) Images, title: “Space Inigma” Image credit: Digital Juice (royalty- free) Images, title: “Sahara Evenings” Image credit: Digital Juice (royalty- free) Images, title: “Personal Planet” !vi CONTENTS Introduction by Jim Cleveland …………………. 1 PART ONE: Celestial Teacher Commentaries Background: The Teaching Mission and the Time of Correction ……………. 7 One: Connecting to Spirit ………………………. 25 Two: Learning from Spirit ……………………… 111 Three: Teaching with Spirit …………………….. 205 Four: Growing in Spirit …………………………. 223 Five: Being Prepared on a Quickening Planet/Solonia …………………………. 259 Six: Lessons on Living in Spirit/Veronica …… 279 PART TWO: Humans in Spiritual Service Seven: The Stillness: Key to Health, Happiness, and Prosperity, Michael Painter ………………. 359 Eight: Letters to God, an experiential exercise, Mary Livingston ………………………………. 445 Nine: Compassion in the Building of Sustainable Societies, Daniel Raphael ………. 453 Ten: Urantia Book sources research, comments by Mantutia Melchizedek ……….. 465 Eleven: Woods Cross: An Inner Journey to Mansion World Teachings, Jim Cleveland ….. 469 Twelve: Urantia Family Updates: Rejections and Replies, and UWIN, the Urantia World Integration Nucleus, Jim Cleveland …. 491 Understanding the Time of Correction ………. 531 End Notes ……………………………………….. 537 Celestial Personalties list & Lessons ……….. 539 Connections ………………………………………. 545 !vii !viii Teaching Mission Volume 2 INTRODUCTION to Volume 2 Jim Cleveland, Editor In The Teaching Mission: A New Foundation of Spirituality for a Quickening Planet, scores of visiting celestial teachers introduced themselves and explained the “Correcting Time” mission on our and other rebellious planets, worlds that have deviated from the Divine Plan and are suffering the consequences. This volume included the experiences and testimonies of scores of human contributors who not only are in contact with celestial teachers but don’t mind writing about it. Our narratives carried readers over more than two decades of experiences and lessons from celestial teachers and into the Magisterial Mission for the planet. This is the dawning of an age when enlightened and spiritually encircuited humans will be inspired, informed and invigorated to build new sustainable institutions anchored in spiritual values. In this new age, secularism will be replaced by dynamic integrations of spirit. So what would be needed for a second volume? The critical spine of the first book was the greatest piece of information that human personalities can know today — that true spiritual growth comes from within and your most reliable guidance will always come from there. It is always to be measured against human bloviating. Within you, God has an !1 Teaching Mission Volume 2 indwelling spirit. Within you, there was added the Spirit of Truth. Within you, much more will be added as you actively take steps in faith and service. Could a second volume say more? Indeed, it does. First, we share many topical lessons from the celestial teachers on the critical elements in our personal spiritual growth — making a strong and reliable connection to Spirit; learning from that connection, becoming a teacher of spiritual values yourself, and living in that aura of spirit in all of your days. The celestial personalities herein deal with these subjects with the insights they’ve gleaned from longtime service in the Spiritual Hierarchy. We also feature Michael Painter’s never-published but ultimately essential text called The Stillness: Key to Health, Happiness and Prosperity. It reveals the layers of Stillness practice and how to implement seven essential steps to commune with the spirits within.