I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session come from November 18, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I greet you in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We thank you and give you many hopes of blessing for the opportunity to speak with you this evening, for the opportunity to share our lives with yours through these few precious vibratory experiences which you call moments of time.

We would like to tell you a story, my friends, of a princess. The heroine could just as easily have been a prince upon some levels of storytelling, but for our parable it is quite necessary that this entity be female. As is the custom in fairy tales about princesses, she was awaiting one man who could stir her heart, a heart that was hard-bitten by many, many years of power and lonely beyond words because of that power. Courtier after courtier, peasant after peasant filed by with their best gifts, hoping to win her favor. She had offers of everything from livestock to pearls to kingdoms, new realms to govern. In none of these things was she at all interested, and sadly at the end of each feast day she would close audience, still powerful and still lonely.

One day an ill-garbed man came to her court. He was not a courtier or a peasant. He was a stranger. His home was the road. He did not understand why his journey had brought him to this place, but when he saw what lay before him, there grew within his heart a great desire to speak his mind and his heart, as all were allowed to do on this great feast day. Having no cap for his head, he tugged at his hair in order to make respect and bowed his knees and in rough words made his plea. “Milady,” he said, “I can give you nothing but my days, my nights, my love, and my road. My feeling for you is such that I am blinded. I cannot see any other, and so you shall have to help me if we are to be together, for the blind need guides, and I offer you my need as well as my love, for I shall be confused. To share my road is a strange thing indeed. Milady,” he continued, “I do not know where I shall be tomorrow, next week, or next year. I have nothing but my flesh and my heart, my mind and my honor, and I give these into your hands. Whether you accept them or not, you are and will always have been my love.”

Hatonn began this session by telling a story of a princess. They began by saying we would like to tell you a story of a princess who could have been a prince upon some levels of storytelling, but for our parable it is necessary that this entity be female, and as is the custom in fairy tales about princesses, she was awaiting one man who could stir her heart that was hard-bitten by many years of power and lonely beyond words because of that power, so courtier after courtier, peasant after peasant filed by with their best gifts, hoping to win her favor, for she had offers of everything from livestock, to pearls, to new realms to govern, but in none of these things was she interested, and at the end of each feast day she would close audience, still powerful and still lonely. Hatonn went on to say one day an ill-garbed man came to her court, but he was not a courtier or a peasant, for he was a stranger, and his home was the road, yet he did not understand why his journey had brought him to this place, but when he saw what lay before him, there grew within his heart a great desire to speak his mind and his heart, as all were allowed to do on this great feast day, so having no cap for his head, he tugged at his hair in order to make respect and bowed his knees and in rough words made his plea, so “Milady,” he said: “I can give you nothing but my days, my nights, my love, and my road. My feeling for you is such that I am blinded. I cannot see any other, and so you shall have to help me if we are to be together, for the blind need guides, and I offer you my need as well as my love, for I shall be confused. To share my road is a strange thing indeed. Milady,” he continued, “I do not know where I shall be tomorrow, next week, or next year. I have nothing but my flesh and my heart, my mind and my honor, and I give these into your hands. Whether you accept them or not, you are and will always have been my love.” On March 7, 2004, Q’uo spoke of the general nature of honor:

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and we greet you in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. We thank you so much for the privilege, the honor, and the duty of being called to this group this day. It is a blessing to us to be able to serve as we had hoped to, and a call from your group is most welcome. We ask, as always, that each of you guard the portals of your discrimination very carefully, listening to the personal resonance that comes with your unique truth and not for any perceived outer authority. If you are able to guard those things that you keep of what we say and those things that you discard, then we will feel far more free to be able to share with you without infringing upon your free will.

My friends, it is a great folly, or so it seems to be, encased in such flesh as you experience in your density. You feel clumsy and awkward, and so you are, compared to higher density bodies. You feel numb and unable to see the larger picture, and this is so compared to the awareness available at other levels of vibration. Yet yours is the splendor of giving the true generosity that only comes when you truly cannot see and cannot hear the divine but only have faith that there is such a thing as divine Love. In your illusion, may we say that you tend to undervalue your contributions to others. The least of those among you contributes in a vital way. It is not a conscious contribution in many cases, but the contribution of flesh within which a consciousness has been placed, so precious that to think it could be broken as the human body is broken is almost not to be thought, not to be accepted, not to be tolerated. This precious, you say to yourself, cannot possibly be part or parcel of this flesh.

Yes, my friends, you are inextricably bound about the cells of your third-density chemical body. All your acts will be those of entities incarnate who pour out the blood of heart, or mind, or will, or body without knowing the truth. The chances for courage, for polarizing, for serving, for allowing your flesh to become bread for others, are enormous. How little you value yourselves or your circumstances compared to the reality as we see it. If someone gave you a perfect stone—this instrument’s mind does not know precious stones well; we see in her mind diamonds, rubies, emeralds—someone gave you a perfect emerald, and then told you to swallow it and wear it within your body, you would think that person to be mad. And yet that is your consciousness—perfect jewel, a jewel of perfect shape. Not tossed thoughtlessly into a body, but placed with care, with love, with wisdom, into flesh that you may pour out your life beautifully if you wish, having nothing more to go on than deep-felt feeling that this is your road.

Hatonn continued by saying it is a great folly to be encased in such flesh as you experience in your density, for you feel clumsy, and so you are compared to higher density bodies, and you feel numb and unable to see the larger picture, for this is so compared to the awareness available at other levels of vibration, yet yours is the splendor of giving generosity that only comes when you cannot see and cannot hear the divine but only have faith that there is such a thing as divine Love, for in your illusion you tend to undervalue your contributions to others, yet the least of those among you contributes in a vital way, but it is not a conscious contribution in many cases, but it is the contribution of flesh within which a consciousness has been placed, so precious that to think it could be broken as the human body is broken is almost not to be accepted since this precious consciousness cannot possibly be part of this flesh. Then Hatonn said you are bound about the cells of your third-density chemical body, and all your acts will be those of entities incarnate who pour out the blood of heart, mind, or body without knowing the truth, so the chances for polarizing and serving are enormous, but how little you value yourselves or your circumstances compared to the reality as we see it, so if someone gave you a perfect emerald and then told you to swallow it and wear it within your body, you would think that person to be mad, yet that is your consciousness, a jewel of perfect shape, not tossed thoughtlessly into a body, but placed with Love and wisdom into flesh that you may pour out your life beautifully if you wish, having nothing more to go on than deep-felt feeling that this is your road. On September 9, 2023, Q’uo spoke of the nature of our consciousness:

We would suggest that you, in your meditations, ask that presence of the One Creator to move through you in ways that present themselves to you to be of service to others, to other-selves, to other facets or portions of the One Infinite Creator. Within your being is a great deal of the ability to be of this kind of service that will present itself to you if you ask the Creator to do that. And this is a manner in which you can polarize your consciousness in the positive sense so that you become more and more that which you seek: the One Infinite Creator. This is the journey of all entities upon this planet. And this is a journey which we feel that you have traveled a good distance upon. And we would suggest that you ask for more ability and opportunity to utilize those skills which have been given to you. Ask the Creator and the Creator shall respond.

You see, my friends, we must many times use females for those who receive and males for those who offer, for that is the archetypical nature of your sexuality. In actuality, each of you is both receptor and giver, taker and nurturer. Never doubt your worth to those about you. Never doubt that your nurturing is questionable any more than you doubt that there is a land in which princes and princesses have grand fairs. Where did these thoughts come from if there is not a level of knowledge which tells you about yourself? We offer this teaching to you in humility and are so grateful for the opportunity to speak with you. That is all. We can only repeat again and again: O what treasure lies within your bones, what beauty of spirit shines from loin far up into the heavens. There is no distinction, there is no being cut off. The illusion seems to cut you off, but you are a treasure indeed, each of you, just as you are. And in the flesh, you shall learn twenty, nay one hundred times better to serve, to Love, to give and to accept, to take, to receive. Love is completing circuits; it is not necessarily giving.

Then Hatonn said we must use females for those who receive and males for those who offer, for that is the archetypical nature of your sexuality, but actually each of you is both receptor and giver, taker and nurturer, so never doubt your worth to those about you, any more than you doubt that there is a land in which princes and princesses have grand fairs, for there is a level of knowledge which tells you about yourself, and we offer this teaching to you in humility and are grateful for the opportunity to speak with you, yet we can only repeat: O what treasure lies within your bones, what beauty of spirit shines from loin far up into the heavens, but there is no distinction or being cut off, yet the illusion seems to cut you off, but you are a treasure just as you are, and in the flesh, you shall learn a hundred times better to serve, to Love, to give and to accept, for Love is completing circuits. On December 29, 1997, Q’uo described the nature of the third-density illusion:

You are correct in your assumption that the illusion is that which is more than it appears to be, for each does appear to be separate from each other entity and from your environment itself. The unity of all things is the underlying truth in this matter. The illusion of separation exists so that each portion of the one Creator, the personalities who each of you are, may have the opportunity to explore within the one Creator’s boundless field, the opportunities for discovering Love and service for each other, though these may not seem to be the primary reasons for which each was incarnated. The illusion offers many other alternate answers for why each is here: to gather wealth, to be powerful, to do this or that great thing. All of these are but means by which each entity may find the heart of Love and unity within itself. Each uses the artifacts of the illusion to travel the spiritual journey, though all around one the material world is given ascendancy.

We close this circuit and relinquish this instrument at this time. Please be aware that our use of the word Love especially is inaccurate, and our sayings, as always, are only as important to you as they are helpful. We are those of mortal opinion who know nothing for sure. We have only walked the road a bit ahead of you. What road is that, my friends? Keep walking, my friends. You shall see and it shall be a joyful thing. I am Hatonn. I leave you in the love and in the light of our infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the name of the one infinite Creator. We greet you in Love and Light. We are privileged to speak to you once again and offer our humble service. Our attempts to answer your queries are but meager efforts, but the one Creator resides in each and makes itself known in such a manner. May we attempt the first query, my friends?

L: Latwii, the intensity of the spirit of power tonight seems to be unusually high. Is there a reason for this?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. This evening this small group has purified its desire to seek what you call the truth in a way which is galvanized, shall we say, by the passing of a brother. It is often the case in such a traumatic situation that those left behind will seek with ever more dedication the riddles and mysteries of the life which seems to have ended for one close. Yet each knows that the life continues and, therefore, redoubles the effort to make, shall we say, sense of it all.

Latwii: May we answer you further, my brother?

L: Yes. One further question. When Christ was crucified, he made the statement, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” To whom did He speak, and what did He mean by this?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. The one known as Jesus the Christ was a mortal, as are all who walk your planet, yet this mortal was the one Creator which had uncovered levels of its being that few upon your planet have approached. As its life pattern reflected more and more that indwelling power and beingness of the one Creator, the path laid out for this entity became clear to it, and this entity then followed that path with great dedication. The path ended in this incarnation for this entity upon that cross, and it spoke as a mortal those words asking the one Creator why it needed to fulfill that destiny, shall we say. For even unto this entity who had realized much of its beingness there remained a mystery as to why the story needed an ending of such a nature that would require it to be nailed to a piece of wood to hang upon and be mocked by many as it gasped its last breaths in physical pain. Yet this entity was lifted up by its own faith in that one Creator which it had found within its being and had attempted to reveal to those who had eyes to see and ears to hear.

May we answer you further, my brother?

L: No, you have given me food for thought. I thank you.

I am Latwii. We thank you, my brother, as always. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I have a question, but first I would like to challenge you in the name of Christ, not because l think you aren’t great, but because I have an important question to ask you. I challenge you in the name of Christ. Do you come in the name of Christ, Jesus Christ, my Savior?

I am Latwii, and, my sister, we come in the name of Jesus the Christ, the entity of whom we have just spoken. We come in the name of the Christ consciousness, and all those great masters who have sought the one Creator in the positive sense. We appreciate your challenge and applaud your devotion to the one known as Jehoshua.

May we attempt your query, my sister?

Carla: Yes. It’s been on my mind that the Ra work may not be finished. I have in mind two people which, after what I would consider a rather long period of training together, would be able to function with questioning. My questions, therefore, will be split up. First of all, is it possible for you to give any information of this kind?

I am Latwii and am aware, my sister, of the nature of your queries. We may say that we can speak in general terms, for in this instance the query about that which most definitely affects your future.

Carla: All right, one thing at a time. Is it possible that the two entities that I have in mind, the one known as Jim and I, could reach, sustain, and thrive, all except for me, with the level of harmony, health, tranquility and unity that Don, Jim and I experienced that was the basis for the Ra contact? I realize that the instrument knows absolutely nothing about this. This was on purpose, and I would like to say to the instrument, I’m sorry, but I didn’t think it would be wise to tell you what I was thinking. I wanted to go into it from a more general point of view.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister, and it is fortunate that this instrument was not notified beforehand of these queries, for we are sure that it would have been most difficult for it to stand aside should it have had previous warning. We can suggest that the level of harmony that is possible for you and this instrument to achieve is a level which can easily approach that experienced by you and the one known as Don, for it is easier to harmonize fewer energies than many energies. Yet there is a certain level or number of entities necessary to do the kind of work of which you speak.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yes. The question was, could these four people sustain that level of harmony and thrive both physically, mentally and emotionally? And the reason I said forget me was that I come in with so many physical handicaps that it would skew the answer. Everybody else is healthy.

I am Latwii, and we fear that we are not aware of salient portions of your query. We are unaware of entities other than the one known as Jim and yourself. May we ask for clarification, my sister?

Carla: I do not wish to say these names out loud. Is it acceptable if I think them?

I am Latwii. This is quite acceptable, my sister.

Carla: I shall do so now.

I am Latwii, and we are grateful that you mentioned that you were going to think of these entities. We appreciate hints. Now to your query, my sister. We see that these entities which you have spoken of before are entities which, indeed, generate and sustain great amounts of harmonic resonance and are entities which could, with great effort and dedication, achieve the level of harmony which would approach that previously experienced in the contact with those of Ra. Whether this harmony would be of the proper pitch is not that which we can either affirm or predict, for the future is most unknown even to those who can see its possibilities.

May we attempt further response, my sister?

Carla: Can you say whether the higher selves of these four beings made agreements to do Ra work before incarnation if necessary?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We find that there have been agreements made by each of these entities to work in this particular type of contact. The agreements provided for various, shall we say, alternatives or backup probabilities. Whether these can be instituted and manifested is the mystery which lies before you.

Carla: Okay. So, let me see. I’ve gotten so far that I have identified the proper people as far as agreements made before birth, and that part of our agreements were that we would be free to attempt to reach a level of harmony necessary to sustain the Ra workings. Am I correct up to this point?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. We can correct it only by inserting the modifier “some” of these people, rather than “the” people.

Carla: Okay. Now that brings me to my next deep hunch in a series of deep hunches I’ve been working with all this weekend. I have a deep hunch that one of these people is absolutely necessary to the group as a battery for the questioner, for the questioner could not do the work without the battery, without the life energy of this person being involved, I guess, in terms of what Hatonn just said, without the circuit being closed between those two people, so that in essence you would have three people and a battery for that third person.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We can suggest that though there may be a specific entity that is capable of serving in the capacity of what you have called a battery, there may be others who, in a joined fashion, may be able to serve in the same capacity.

May we answer you further?

Carla: Well, that surprises me. I would think there would only be one battery for this particular person. Okay. I would think that the training period would probably be …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and we shall attempt the answer to your query at this time, my sister. We can suggest that the period known to you as a year is a relatively sufficient amount of time during which the energies of each entity may find the ability to harmonize in a manner which then readies the path and the work. We can suggest that this period of time is not fixed but needs to be prolonged enough that honest and clear communication is affected. There is great politeness and concern among even the gentlest and most eccentric of entities. This veneer needs to be penetrated in order that even at the lowest ebb of compassion and wisdom the entities are able to maintain a stable harmony.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla: Yes, sorry you guys, I hope I’m not going … I would assume that although at the beginning it would actually aid us to use mild mind-altering drugs—I’m speaking of marijuana—that a month before we began work we would have to swear off and stay off. Is that correct?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. In this instance we cannot serve as the doctor making a prescription, even in the negative sense. We find that the information which can provide answer to this query is known to this group.

Carla: Okay.

Latwii: May we attempt another query, my sister?

Carla: Okay. Well, this is the biggie, all right? Is it, in your opinion, at all important that there be more Ra work done? Or is it instead better for us to realize that there are other things to do that we have not yet done. I’m thinking specifically of the fact that we got a new contact from Yadda recently that alerted me to the knowledge that, of course, it is a crowded universe, which I say a lot, but sometimes I don’t pay attention to what I say, and it’s possible that the Ra work is finished. If it is possible for you to give me your human opinion, I would be interested in anything you have to say on that point.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Well, now. In our best human opinion, may we suggest that the future has within it a great panoply of possibilities. May we suggest that the most important ingredient for realizing any possibility is the simple desire to be of service without a dedication to what that service should be and how that service shall result. We can see a future in which you begin again that which has become known as the Ra contact. We can see a future in which there is no such contact, yet there is great work possible in furthering the information which has been gathered and continuing the meetings which have been ongoing for a great portion of your time.

We see possibilities in which new contacts are achieved and information therefrom disseminated. We see a future in which each touches many individuals and speaks with compassion and inspiration of the One which indwells in all. We see a future in which the being of each shines brightly as a beacon and illumines the darkness by its very being with no movement required at all. We see a future in which each walks a path which is most appropriate, which is to say, that as one places a foot upon the ground and does so in a thoughtful manner centered upon the one Creator, it will, therefore, be as natural as breathing to place the foot upon the path, one foot after another, until the journey is traveled one step at a time.

We see a future in which all these things are possible, made possible by the firm desire to serve and the free desire for no particular outcome, for as the one Creator moves through each, the will of the one Creator shall be made known, and if each can remove its small self’s will, then the will of the great One shall move through each as a channel, and shall carve its own pattern and write upon your third-density creation the words of illumination that inspire and provoke the seeking of those who dwell in darkness.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yes. One last question. Can you weigh without emotion the value of each of these paths as one being the most valuable or do you see them as equal?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. We see the equality of each path, yet we see the uniqueness and the power associated with each path as well. It cannot be said with certainty that to serve a few in a powerful manner is greater or lesser in service than to serve many in a lesser powerful manner. We see the one Creator in each entity awaiting that entity’s seeking of it. We see many ways in which many entities may be inspired to begin that seeking. We see that a great variety of ways is available to each in this group to serve as shepherd, to radiate the Love and Light to those who hunger for this nourishment. We can only ask each to seek in meditation the answers which have been provided for each of you by your greater self, by your very own self as you planned this incarnation and as you hid various signposts along your various possible journeys. Know that each path contains in whole all that you hope to accomplish. If one tool is removed, then another will take its place. Know that all is well. No turn will cause the seeker to be lost from that which is sought, for the one Creator waits not only at the end of each path but along each portion of each path, for it is the One who seeks Itself within Itself. There is none else.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, Latwii. Thank you very much, and I thank the instrument.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister, for allowing us to provide our humble service. May we attempt another query at this time?

L: Latwii, excluding yourself, how many entities are in this room?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother, and we shall not take offense at being excluded, but shall suggest that there is a great choir of entities which has joined this group this evening. Though all may not be, shall we say, contained by this room, there are endless entities listening, and speaking, and lending vibration to the great symphony of seeking that has arisen from this group this evening.

May we attempt further response, my brother?

L: No, that answers my question. Thank you very much.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii. We see that we have exhausted the queries for the evening. We are most appreciative to each present for allowing us a beingness within your group, and for allowing us to put into the poor and inadequate vessels—words—those feelings and concepts which are without bound and can only be understood at the heart of the being. We speak to you in words which we hope will also penetrate the essence of the Love which binds each to each. We cannot speak without distortion, but we hope that the heart of our speaking may be known in your hearts. We thank you in a way which we cannot speak at all for allowing our humble service, and we travel with you on the journey. We ask with you the questions of how to travel that journey. We teach and we learn. We are with you always in your meditations, in your contemplations and in your machinations, we join you in joy and in praise for the One Which Is All. We are those of Latwii. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “It is possible to think and think on truth—and up to a certain point that is normal, natural, and right—but then there must come a time when thought stops, a blank comes, almost a vacuum, and then into that vacuum rush the very presence and power of God. We can only come into that Presence stark naked, in a moment of complete silence, when the entire thought processes have stopped, when we have nothing upon which to rely, nothing on which to pin our hopes, but when we have made ourselves barren and completely empty.

That is the moment when we perceive that, even when we cannot know It or feel It or think It, there is an invisible Presence, an intangible Something, which nevertheless is operating, and then from that very Invisibility will come into expression everything necessary to our unfoldment. If we think ourselves to be something, we gravely err. It is only when we come to that place of self-renunciation that the divine Selfhood of our own being revels Itself. Silence is the way.

The Silence is not an absence of sound, but is a state of consciousness which enables us to refrain from mental reaction to what is seen or heard. For example, we may see and recognize a shadow on the wall—an ugly appearance—and yet have no reaction of fear, knowing it to be a shadow.

When consciousness has attained the awareness of one power, one law, one substance, one cause—oneness—we do not respond with fear, doubt, or horror to anything seen or heard, and then it is that consciousness has gone beyond power and attained the Silence—the healing consciousness.”

Later this morning I went outside and used a weedkiller to spray on the weeds in the driveway, the parking areas, and all of the walkways around my yard. Then I hand-weeded the Fern Garden in the back yard.

This afternoon I hand-weeded the small Hosta Garden next to the Fern Garden, and then I hand-weeded the Hosta Garden under the Forsythia Bushes in the far back part of my yard. Then I worked with the small stone wall in front of the fishpond, and I was able to find enough large stones that began at the corner of the stone to complete the first three and one half feet of the stone wall.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 29

Your Deepest Name Is Christ

I am of the principle of divine and eternal Love, and I greet you in the most precious name of Jesus the Christ.

You shall, today, meet someone whose name you think you know, and you shall gaze upon the flesh, opaque and mortal, that is the prison of the incarnate soul.

Know as you meet friends, acquaintances or strangers that the name of the body, the personality and the mind which is used to live a life is not truly the deepest name, but that the deepest name of each is Christ.

For each is Christ. Each eye that meets yours is that of God in flesh. All beings are heirs together in eventual realization of Christhood. Jesus the Christ has said, “If you aid any person, you are aiding me.” Let pure compassion melt the sight of flesh and mortality, that you may serve the Christ in all and find the peace and freedom of infinite Love.

We of the Spirit are here for you that, by grace, you may see the better, hear the clearer, and Love the more purely.

We leave you in divine Love and peace, now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn, Latwii, and Nona channelings for this session come from November 11, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn. I greet you in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator, whom we serve with all of our being. It is an immense privilege to be called to this group this evening. We ourselves have never had anything to tell you, for we in our turn are channels for that which is beyond our own frail understanding. That which we offer to you is offered through us, and only then through this channel. We can speak from no certainty, nor do we wish you to bear our words as a weighty burden, listening to each word and pondering the meanings that may not seem accessible or acceptable to you at this time.

With our thanks and our disclaimer aside, we would speak to you about a fair, a grand and glorious carnival, a bazaar in which all of the merchants display their wares and thousands come to try their luck and to view the excellence that people have made with their hands, and above all to rejoice in the feeling of being part of a happy crowd. In a deep sense, this is part of the motivation for those who incarnate consciously and purposively upon the Earth plane of your third density. You may have many lifetimes, but when you are not within a physical vehicle, it is impossible to remember that the carnival flags can flutter dismally, slowly, and sadly, that pennants may be marred and broken, and that the machinery that governs the merry-go-rounds, the Ferris wheel and all the rides may not always work. As in many, many things, it looks easier in the mind to live an incarnation and to learn the lessons you set for yourself than it is to accomplish the plan you have made. Many of you are ambitious, and your life’s plans have already caused you to experience a great deal of what you would call pain, anguish, suffering, disappointment, and confusion.

Let us stroll together out from the fair onto the street. It is a dark night. The fair is held in a poor section of the city. The chill in the air causes those who have no homes to bundle up against the cold in whatever they may have. You may find someone lying upon the sidewalk, lost in his drink or other intoxication. Shall you sit down and talk to the Creator now, or shall you pass him by? Shall you go back into the carnival and ride and wave your pennants and your flags and your prizes? It is a choice you make, my friends, each day in one way or another, for if you are open to hear the cries of those about you, you will rapidly become aware that there is no day in which the poor, the hungry, the homeless, and the spiritually wasted are not crying out to you personally. And so, you have a brightly lit carnival, and as you stroll through the gates you find a dark carnival. Instead of [inaudible] fine clothes, you have the hand-fashioned rags of the hobo. Instead of the many rides, you have that liquor which intoxicates, or that medicine which is used for oblivion rather than amusement. And what shall you do to be of service?

In this session Hatonn talked about how we deal with living in the carnival of our life and dealing with its difficulties. They began by saying we would speak to you about a glorious carnival, a bazaar in which all of the merchants display their wares, and thousands come to try their luck and to view the excellence that people have made with their hands, and to rejoice in the feeling of being part of a happy crowd, yet in a deep sense, this is part of the motivation for those who incarnate consciously upon the Earth of your third density, for you may have many lifetimes, but when you are not within a physical vehicle, it is impossible to remember that the carnival flags can flutter sadly, that pennants may be broken, and that the Ferris wheel and all the rides may not always work, so as in many things, it looks easier to live an incarnation and to learn the lessons you set for yourself than it is to accomplish the plan you have made, but many of you are ambitious, and your life’s plans have already caused you to experience a great deal of pain and confusion. Hatonn continued by saying let us stroll together out from the fair onto the street, and it is a dark night, and the fair is held in a poor section of the city, so the chill in the air causes those who have no homes to bundle up against the cold in whatever they may have, for you may find someone lying upon the sidewalk, lost in his drink, so: “Shall you sit down and talk to the Creator now, or shall you pass him by? Shall you go back into the carnival and ride and wave your pennants and your flags and your prizes?” Now Hatonn said it is a choice you make each day, for if you are open to hear the cries of those about you, you will become aware that there is no day in which the hungry, the homeless, and the spiritually wasted are not crying out to you, so you have a brightly lit carnival, and as you stroll through the gates you find a dark carnival, but instead of fine clothes, you have the hand-fashioned rags of the hobo, and instead of many rides, you have that liquor which intoxicates, or that medicine which is used for oblivion rather than amusement, and what shall you do to be of service? On December 26, 1981, Latwii described the way that we may decide how to be of service:

I am Latwii, and am aware of your question, my brother, and in this regard we must also reiterate that we cannot give specific advice but can only suggest that if you wish to be of service to one who is in need of your service that you consider carefully the needs of this entity, and in your meditative state seek you this solution, and as you seek to be of service the way shall be made clear from within your own being as to which path would be of most value to this entity.

There was one among you whom you know as a teacher, Jesus, the Christ. This teacher chose the darker circus. Those to whom He reached for discipleship were poor folk indeed—a prostitute, a tax collector, a persecutor, and reviler. And yet He walked into the circus with the bright and shining lights, the gaudy displays, the metaphysical rides. He got upon the merry-go-round and rode the Ferris wheel with those whose lives were bound up in that experience. Nor did He condemn any who so chose to live a life of gratitude and experiential gladness. He spoke in temples. His instructions were based upon a hard rule called the Law and all he did that was different from other teachers within this comfortable world in which the flags flew and waved so prettily was that He pointed out that the heart is more important than the Law. Then He would walk forth into the streets and lift those from the gutter and pavement. Of the many, many stories that are narrated within your holy works, the one to which we would draw your attention is that one wherein the marriage couple awaits the guests for a great feast. When all do not show up, when seats remain empty, this teacher’s instructions are simple: Go out into the streets and gather all that you can find, and yet, if they have not wedding garments, they may not come.

We are aware, my friends, that you have been pulled from your carnival, your gaiety, and your joy to witness one who suffered, and to wonder, “Why? What can I do?” We must leave that question with you, for this entity experienced both fairs, the light and the dark. Like most of you, he contributed all that he knew how to contribute. Like most of you, he became faced with a difficulty. Shall we then condemn those who lie in the gutter because they have not legs upon which to stand? Shall we sneer at the hungry because we have not given them bread? Shall we remove courage and dignity from the infinite and eternal Spirit of one who joined the darker carnival? It is your choice, my friends, and your polarity will surely be affected because of this choice. Far too much has been said about the virtue of caring for the underprivileged who find themselves in darkness. Far too little has been done. When is a spirit not worthy to be fed? When is nobility cut off from the lovingkindness of the Creator?

Then Hatonn said there was one among you whom you know as a teacher, Jesus, the Christ, and this teacher chose the darker circus, for those to whom He reached for discipleship were poor folk: a prostitute, a tax collector, and a persecutor, yet He walked into the circus with the shining lights, and the metaphysical rides, so He rode the Ferris wheel with those whose lives were bound up in that experience, nor did He condemn any who chose to live a life of gratitude, and He spoke in temples, and His instructions were based upon the rule of Law, yet all He did that was different from other teachers within this world which waved so prettily was that He pointed out that the heart is more important than the Law, for He would walk forth into the streets and lift those from the gutter, so of the stories that are narrated within your Bible, the one to which we would draw your attention is that one wherein the marriage couple awaits the guests for a great feast, but when all do not show up His instructions are: Go out into the streets and gather all that you can find, yet if they have not wedding garments, they may not come. Then Hatonn said you have been pulled from your carnival to witness one who suffered, and to wonder: “Why? What can I do?” So, we must leave that question with you, for this entity experienced both fairs, the light and the dark, and like most of you, He contributed all that He knew how to contribute, and like most of you, He became faced with a difficulty, but: “Shall we then condemn those who lie in the gutter because they have not legs upon which to stand? Shall we sneer at the hungry because we have not given them bread? Shall we remove courage and dignity from the infinite and eternal Spirit of one who joined the darker carnival? Hatonn said it is your choice, and your polarity will be affected because of this choice, for too much has been said about the virtue of caring for the underprivileged who find themselves in darkness, and too little has been done, for: “When is a spirit not worthy to be fed? When is nobility cut off from the lovingkindness of the Creator?” On March 5, 2016, Q’uo spoke of how we can deal with one who suffers:

Perhaps the entity seeing such suffering without the ability to affect it wished to empathize with one who suffered, as this is yet an unexperienced phenomenon to the one who witnessed the suffering. Perhaps the desire is to so feel the pain of another—that there is a greater degree of Love for that other and perhaps for all others in general—generated within the heart, the mind, and the spirit of the one witnessing the suffering. Perhaps there is for the one suffering a certain kind of relief or sense of being appreciated and loved when it knows that another Loves it enough to witness the suffering and to be with it in the suffering and to provide companionship.

Though the suffering cannot be ameliorated, the companionship can be offered, the Love can be given, and the experience of a comradeship which has known great trials is shared; and upon the deeper level of both entities there is the satisfaction of knowing that there was a united effort put forward in that experience which had no hope of physical third-dimensional resolution in any convenient sense, shall we say, in any final triumph of suffering being vanquished.

You are on a long voyage, my friends. The carnival shall end for you, as it has for others, in your physical death, and yet you as Spirit shall be free to move ahead to your next experience. One thing only shall be required of you, and that is that you shall review this experience. We ask you both to be easy upon yourselves, and to be honest with yourselves. What has lain before you this day which you have not done to help another? What discipline of learning have you not sought because of pressing considerations that shall not survive your death? How can you be of service? This instrument once composed a short article in which this instrument envisioned the teacher known as Jesus coming back into the inner cities. “He would sit down in the gutter,” wrote this instrument, “and take his peanut butter sandwich, and break it, and it would be food enough for all who came to touch his consciousness with their own.” Your daily bread is but a symbol, my friends, and we ask you to consider again and again the value of the allegorical and symbolic nature of what seems to be reality. Draw back and take the viewpoint of the eternal present. How can you Love each other? How can you listen? How can you accept? How can you offer freedom to those who are wearing another piece of clothing, another physical vehicle?

We are aware that we tread close to reaching the limits of this instrument’s fatigue. We are also aware that the energy in this group this evening is such that we shall only exercise the feelings of contact, for this energy is extremely strong. Therefore, we shall pause at this time and move among you. If you request our conditioning, mentally request such, and as this instrument pauses, this shall be done.

[Pause]

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and greet you again in Love and Light. We would close through this instrument at this time. We wish to encourage you to live in the realization that you shall leave this caravan of booths and prizes, rides and thrills, and you shall once again have a larger viewpoint. My friends, this is your chance. You have given it to yourself, and you undoubtedly feel at this time that you have perhaps bitten off more than you can chew in terms of processing the catalyst of your life so that you may be a true channel of Love and of Light and of service. Of course you have, my friends. This is the essence of the learning of the lessons of Love: to take more than you can chew, and then to pray your way, to meditate your way, to contemplate, analyze, and cling to your way until strength is given you, not from yourself, but through yourself.

Hatonn continued by saying you are on a long voyage, and the carnival shall end for you in your physical death, yet you as Spirit shall be free to move ahead to your next experience, but one thing shall be required of you, and that is that you shall review this experience, so we ask you to be easy upon yourselves and to be honest with yourselves, for: “What has lain before you this day which you have not done to help another? What discipline of learning have you not sought because of pressing considerations that shall not survive your death? How can you be of service?” Hatonn said Carla once composed a short article in which this instrument envisioned Jesus coming back into the inner cities, and “He would sit down in the gutter and take his peanut butter sandwich, and break it, and it would be food enough for all who came to touch his consciousness with their own,” so your daily bread is a symbol, and we ask you to consider the value of the symbolic nature of what seems to be reality, and take the viewpoint of the eternal present, for: “How can you Love each other? How can you listen? How can you accept? How can you offer freedom to those who are wearing another piece of clothing, another physical vehicle?” Now Hatonn said we wish to encourage you to live in the realization that you shall leave this caravan of rides and thrills, and you shall have a larger viewpoint, for this is your chance that you have given to yourself, and you feel at this time that you have bitten off more than you can chew in terms of processing the catalyst of your life, so that you may be a channel of Love and of Light and of service, for this is the essence of the learning of the lessons of Love: to take more than you can chew, and then to meditate your way, and cling to your way until strength is given you, not from yourself, but through yourself. On June 6, 1982, Latwii described our lessons of Love:

The lessons of your density are the lessons of Love. When enough of your people learn to Love one another, then the entire creation sings and resounds with that harmony, and each atom rejoices and seeks to join more fully with each part of creation. Therefore, by whatever means is available to the entity; each entity might therefore send the Love and Light to the one creation in which your planet resides, to your planet itself, to each entity upon its surface, indeed into the self, and thereby assure the unification of all that is.

There are many kinds of courage. May we say that you have witnessed one kind. In this instance, which is extreme and extraordinary, the one known as Don exhibited a courage most difficult to express. This entity had a wish to protect those about him, and so he did. Many things that you do will also be misunderstood, though less drastic. We urge you to do that which you feel to do, asking only that you center yourself daily in meditation and ground yourself in service to others. Let the flags fly; cheer the band on; ride your rides. Be exhilarated and share the joy of consciousness, and when you walk out into the darkness of a cold and rainy street, know that this too is a carnival full of joy and mystery, and find yourself behind the carnival masks that you may see in the gutter, just as you please yourself by seeing yourself as the graceful participants of a circus.

If all things can become one to you, then you can become one with all things, and you shall have learned the greatest lesson, and you may turn to all those whom you meet and say, “I shall meet you in paradise,” for the realization of that oneness is the most powerful realization in third density. Rejoice, therefore, and Love one another. Celebrate with one another. Share that which you have and that which you feel, and look when you walk out into the sleet, the cold, the frost, and the stench of a hobo’s fire on a bad weather night. Offer your jacket, your hat, your food, your substance insofar as you are able, with gladness at heart and a singleness of mind. See the Creator, and so shall the Creator see you.

Now Hatonn said there are many kinds of courage, and you have witnessed one kind, so in this instance, which is extraordinary, Don exhibited a courage difficult to express, for he had a wish to protect those about him, and so he did, but many things that you do will be misunderstood, though less drastic, so we urge you to do that which you feel to do, asking that you center yourself daily in meditation and ground yourself in service to others, and be exhilarated and share the joy of consciousness, and when you walk out into the darkness of a cold and rainy street, know that this too is a carnival full of joy and mystery, and find yourself behind the carnival masks that you may see in the gutter, just as you please yourself by seeing yourself as the graceful participants of a circus. Hatonn continued by saying if all things can become one to you, then you can become one with all things, and you shall have learned the greatest lesson, and you may turn to all those whom you meet and say, “I shall meet you in paradise,” for the realization of that oneness is the most powerful realization in third density, so rejoice and Love one another, and celebrate with one another, and share that which you have and that which you feel, but look when you walk out into the cold and the stench of a hobo’s fire on a bad winter night, so offer your jacket, your hat, and your food as you are able, with gladness of heart and a singleness of mind, yet see the Creator, and so shall the Creator see you. In 10.14, Ra said that we can see the Creator everywhere:

Questioner: For general development of the reader of this book, could you state some of the practices or exercises to perform to produce an acceleration toward the Law of One?

I am Ra. Exercise One. This is the most nearly centered and usable within your illusion complex. The moment contains Love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously seek that Love in awareness and understanding-distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of Love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking powers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek Love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.

Exercise Two. The universe is one being. When a mind/body/spirit complex views another mind/body/spirit complex, see the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.

Exercise Three. Gaze within a mirror. See the Creator.

Exercise Four. Gaze at the creation which lies about the mind/body/spirit complex of each entity. See the Creator.

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.

We drench you in our Love as if it were a waterfall. It is our great, great joy to have spoken with you, and we now leave this instrument, thanking each who responded to our conditioning and assuring each that each may or may not choose to channel as does this instrument, that each is equally able and equally valued. This instrument merely has more time, as you call it, to have learned the tuning mechanisms, the challenging mechanisms, and the trick of emptying the mind so that we may fill it when this instrument does not know what we are to say. No sentence this instrument has said this evening has been known to her beforehand. There are many, many, many other services just as important. We are here only to inspire, never to instruct. Your instructions shall come from within you. We ask you to join us in the kingdom which you call heaven daily, to listen to that universal self which is you and to experience and come to know that which is yours, that which has been given to you to do—for one man, and for one man, then for all men.

I am known to you as Hatonn. We thank Latwii and Laitos for aiding us in the conditioning. We thank a great teacher known to us as Amira for lending an energy that feeds into this particularly powerful group this evening. We give thanksgiving, and we praise each of you. May your hearts rejoice and be merry, for you are yet able to Love and be Loved, to care and to accept nurturing, to reach out and to enfold, to experience, in short, the carnival of third-density illusion—that grand illusion with many, many mirrors, all of which give you a distorted picture of the one original Thought. Meditate, my, friends, and allow the distortions to fall away.

I am Hatonn. I leave you in the Love and the Light of our infinite Creator. Remember always that your peanut butter sandwiches, like fishes and loaves, are in infinite supply for those who wish never to hunger again. Break them and give them, for it is an infinite universe. Adonai, my friends. Adonai. Adonai. I am Hatonn.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

…by giving our humble responses to your queries. Without further ado, may we then begin with the first query.

R: Yes, Latwii. Hatonn mentioned courage in relation to what happened, and Don’s wanting to protect those around him. Can you perhaps elaborate on that?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. We are working with this instrument and attempting to channel the concepts in a narrower band than is our usual wont, for this entity feels that it may not be able to serve well in giving information without distortion. Therefore, please bear with us as we bear with this instrument.

The courage which our brothers and sisters of Hatonn spoke of is a courage which may not be apparent to many, but we can assure you that when one is faced with what appears to be a precipice, and when one leads a group on this path—we must pause momentarily.

[The tape was turned over and the recorder restarted.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii and am once again with this instrument. To continue. When one leads a group and faces what appears to be the precipice, the choice must be made as to whether the group might tumble over the edge and all be lost, it would seem, or whether the one leading shall go first, and by going first, indicate to the rest that the precipice is there and can be stepped back from, for one has gone. We shall attempt further clarification. The one known as Don saw what has been described this evening as the dark carnival, and saw the difficulties that awaited should this experience be continued which had begun in the recent of your times as you measure experience. There were those images of destruction which filled the mind of the one known as Don, and this entity wished in his deeper self to reserve as much of that difficulty for himself as possible so that those of his comrades might be spared the added difficulties. The conscious mind made use of this decision in its own distorted fashion, and leapt first from the precipice in order that the others might avoid it.

May we answer you further, my brother?

R: I want to understand correctly. Don’s polarity was in the process of being tampered with, is that what you’re saying, or was he just being inundated with negative images? I’m not sure I understand.

I am Latwii and shall attempt, my brother, to shine some light upon this most complex of concepts. Let us begin by reminding each that the honor of standing close to Light, shall we say, bears also the responsibility to radiate that Light as purely as possible. The honor of the contact which this group experienced with those known as Ra brought with it great responsibility. Each stumbled on this path on numerous occasions, and each then suffered the difficulties. The contact is of a nature which is, shall we say, metaphysically potent. To continue in such a fashion of attempting purity over a long period of what you call time, has the effect of increasing the potential for further stumbling. When stumbling becomes more and more, shall we say, treacherous, it can be then determined that to allow that which has been done to continue in its flowering, there needs be some cessation of the potential for great difficulty. The one known as Don felt the work which had been done would suffice to Light the way for many but could be jeopardized if the entire group fell over the precipice. Therefore, the choice was made to take that step in a distorted fashion.

May we answer you further, my brother?

R: No, Latwii, thank you very much.

I am Latwii, and we are most grateful to you, my brother, for allowing us to perform our humble service. Is there another query at this time?

N: Yeah. Latwii, I would like to ask a question. Don taught me how …

Jim: Hold it, N. Wait a minute.

N: Is something wrong, Jim?

Jim: Yes, hold it a minute.

[Carla faints. Pause.]

Carla: Sorry. Let’s retune a bit. Don liked “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”, “Mammy’s Little Baby.” Sorry, gang, I fainted.

[The group retunes by singing “Shortnin’ Bread.”]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii and am once again with this instrument. We appreciate your concern, my friends, for the one known as Carla, and we shall attempt to utilize this instrument in a manner which is not quite so conducive to the trance state by the more rapid repetition of the sound vibration complexes.

Please continue the query, my sister.

N: Latwii, I was wondering about Don and which density he’s in now. He was a very smart man who taught me a lot, and I’m wondering since we’re third density, if perhaps because of his death was in a negative way, if that would contribute to his going to a higher level or entity form?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We shall attempt to respond to the query which has many portions. Each in this room attempts the lessons of third-density Love. Each learns according to a unique pattern of ability. The one known as Don learned much and taught much in his span of time upon your planet. As his transition from this illusion to the next was of a traumatic and sudden nature, the transition then has been somewhat more difficult. But we may assure each that the transition shall be completed well, and there shall be the clear experience of the one known as Don of his being the one Creator. This point of view shall so illumine the beingness of the one known as Don that the experiences of the previous life now ended shall be seen in a way that shall expose those signposts missed and shall offer the one known as Don the opportunity and the privilege of setting those signposts right by renewing the experience at another of what you call time.

Remember always, my sister, that the view from your illusion is most limited in order that experience of a dramatic nature might be gained, that is not possible when the view is wide and the self is seen as the one Creator. When then, that self is known to be the one Creator, then those treasures of experience gained in the illusion you now inhabit become a true nourishing harvest to the being of the one Creator. Nothing, in truth, is lost. All shall be made whole, and the one known as Don shall move in time and space to experience again those lessons which shall glorify the one Creator. There is, in truth, no positive or negative act. There is the one Creator which knows Itself, and the one known as Don shall, indeed, experience that in each of his life patterns which he shall set for himself. All shall be pursued in joy. Those experiences seen now in this tiny illusion as failures shall be seen as great honors and privileges to be filled with the fullness of the joy of the one Creator at another of what you call time.

N asked: “I was wondering about Don and which density he’s in now. He was a very smart man who taught me a lot, and I’m wondering since we’re third density, if perhaps because of his death was in a negative way, if that would contribute to his going to a higher level or entity form?” Latwii replied each in this room attempts the lessons of third-density Love, and each learns according to a unique pattern of ability, so Don learned much and taught much in his span of time upon your planet, for his transition from this illusion to the next was of a traumatic nature, the transition has been more difficult, but we may assure each that the transition shall be completed well, and there shall be the clear experience of Don of his being the one Creator, yet this point of view shall so illumine the beingness of Don that the experiences of the previous life now ended shall be seen in a way that shall expose those signposts missed and shall offer Don the opportunity of setting those signposts right by renewing the experience at another time. Then Latwii said the view from your illusion is limited in order that experience of a dramatic nature might be gained, but that is not possible when the view is wide, and the self is seen as the one Creator, for when that self is known to be the one Creator then those treasures of experience gained in the illusion you now inhabit become a nourishing harvest to the being of the one Creator, so nothing is lost, and Don shall move in time and space to experience again those lessons which shall glorify the one Creator, for there is no positive or negative act, so there is the one Creator which knows Itself, and Don shall experience that in each of his life patterns which he shall set for himself, and all shall be pursued in joy because those experiences seen now in this illusion as failures shall be seen as honors to be filled with the fullness of the joy of the one Creator at time. On July 23, 1989, Q’uo said that nothing is lost:

So, nothing is wasted, and nothing is lost in processing catalyst in a biased fashion. You are, of course, attempting to hone out of the stuff of which you are made, that is, free will and the Creator-self within, a self in which the will has become disciplined.

Latwii: May we answer you further, my sister?

N: No, thank you, Latwii, very much.

I am Latwii and am grateful to you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

T: Yes, I have a question. It’s very similar to hers. Then Don’s experience with leaving this illusion in a traumatic way, if I understand you correctly, may be easier or different than a person of a lesser consciousness who would do the same sort of thing? In other words, it would be easier for Don to make this transition and to learn from it than it would be for someone who is not nearly as conscious as he was, is that correct? Or could you just speak on that?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. It may be correct that one who has a greater, shall we say, grasp of the nature of evolution may find it easier to proceed from what has been called a traumatic experience in leaving the incarnation. What we have intended by our previous response is to suggest that for each entity leaving this illusion, the greater view which is then available is that which puts all into perspective. Within your illusion a death is seen as a great event. A death which is traumatic and brought to the self by the self is seen as most disastrous. Yet from another point of view, it can be seen as a great opportunity to find Love where there was no Love, to find Light where there was no Light, to illuminate the darkness with the presence of the one Creator. This, then, is the opportunity which faces the one known as Don. It may be seen as that which you could call karma, yet it can be seen as that which is a great opportunity and a great honor as well as duty.

May we answer you further, my brother?

T: No, thank you very much.

I am Latwii, and we, as always, thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

S: Latwii, I have a question. Is there anything that we can do to help Don, to aid Don without sending a vibration that would cause him to become earthbound or concerned about us?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We can suggest that each feel the pain of the loss, for as a brother leaves the journey, there is the inevitable feeling of emptiness. Feel that grief and allow that grief to be fulfilled and finished. See then the one known as Don continuing upon his journey, and send this entity the Love and Light which springs from your heart and your very being, that he might have a comfort upon his journey. Wish him well; send him joy; and allow him to depart without the lingering grief. This shall smooth the journey of the one known as Don, and this entity then may continue with that plan he has set before him, as the one Creator moves through him that It might know Itself through his experience.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: Well, along those same lines, I was thinking, since he did commit suicide—of course, he’d been slowly doing it for a long time, but still the ending was sudden—and I wondered if even though the American Book of the Dead had Gnostic qualities about it which certainly isn’t to be recommended, that it might serve as a grounding so that Don would know for sure where he was and where he was going. Do you think it might be helpful in this case, or is that treading too close to the Law of Confusion?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We can suggest that whatever be done for the one known as Don, that aid might be most helpfully given by simply sending a generalized form of Love and Light in order that there shall be no distraction and no tie to the one known as Don. It is helpful to allow the grieving to find its cessation, then to send the Love and the Light, the peace and the joy, and to wish the departing entity well and when thinking of this entity, to raise this entity into the Light, no matter what experience is remembered, that there shall be no ties which hold this entity to this illusion longer than is necessary.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Just two things. Alternately I have thought of doing what I would normally do under the circumstances, which would be to go to my own particular Christian denomination’s Eucharist daily for a couple of weeks to make a dedication to his passage. The other thing I had considered doing was to send postcards to the people that are in the meditation group or that had been and knew him, letting them know when we were going to plant the juniper tree that will be Don’s only memorial. Would either of these things hold him back in any way or would either of them help? Because I would like him to be able to go home if there’s anything I can do to help.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. In this case we find that we must bate our response somewhat in order that we do not infringe upon your own choices. As we mentioned previously, it is most helpful to make any gesture that raises the entity into the Love and Light of the one Creator which is ever available to each. The rituals which attempt to instruct from, shall we say, a distance are those which have the effect of delaying the passage, for the one so communicated with must process the specific information and must make some response. The Love and Light sendings in a generalized form do not require any backward looking, and ease the forward journey. The intent to raise the entity into the Light of the one Creator is that which is most beneficial, whatever the form of the offering.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, I think I get the gist of it. The first of my three suggestions would hold him back while he went through the thing, the Gnostic thing. The other two are general, and I’ll keep it in mind, and I sure do thank you.

I am Latwii, and we are most grateful to you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

J: Latwii, could you say anything more about the nature of the precipice which Don perceived and into which he committed himself so that we would stay back from it?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. This is a concept which is not easy to enunciate, but we shall give it our best shot, shall we say, you will excuse the pun. We do not wish to keep our responses in the somber vibration and shall attempt to lighten them if possible. The precipice which faced the one known as Don is that responsibility which may be too great to fulfill. The work which had been ongoing for some time was that which required in this entity’s mind more than could be offered and have in this entity’s mind, and perhaps have resulted in a greater burden than could be borne, so that the fruits which had been harvested would not be available to those which sought the harvest. This entity then assured that the fruits thus harvested would be available for a greater portion of what you call time.

May we answer you further, my sister?

J: No, I guess not, although I don’t quite understand it all yet.

Carla: Then what you’re saying is, he saw a way that perhaps all of us here in the room who were solidly behind the Ra material might be sucked into a situation that would discredit us in some way or make us unable to function to disseminate the material, and he chose not to do that, not to put it that far along. Is that what you’re saying? More or less?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We shall once again attempt to utilize this instrument in a way which this instrument finds difficult to accept. We are attempting to move within the bounds of the Law of Free Will and give information which is sought to those which are of great concern and to those who wish to understand that which is beyond the understanding

…

Carla: Well, may I interrupt you long enough to say that I think it’s general knowledge in this room that in the last session we had with Ra, Ra said that unless there was a great deal of praise and thanksgiving, I myself might take this opportunity to have a kidney problem and leave the incarnation. So that’s what I meant by saying that it would be impossible to disseminate the information, because I wouldn’t be here. Go ahead. That’s what I meant. Maybe that gets you away from the Law of Confusion a little bit.

I am Latwii and am grateful for your added comments, my sister. We find that the one known as Don was aware that great difficulties awaited his traveling and the potential for difficulty for each of this group—that is, those involved in what had come to be known as the Ra contact—and foresaw not only his own what you call death, but the death of each of the others within the group when his condition lingered overly long, and therefore wished to avoid that outcome.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. May we attempt another query at this time?

Carla: I’ve got just a little nitty-gritty. I didn’t think I could go in trance as long as I was holding onto somebody’s hand; I thought I could just faint, sort of. It’s not the same thing, is it?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. It is quite correct that the trance is not possible when the physical vehicle is touched, for the mind/body/spirit complex is called to remain with the vehicle, for there is infringement upon the aura which does not allow the exit. The vertigo effect which you have just experienced is that which renders unconsciousness for a short period of time.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Why the hands? I know other parts of the body won’t work. Or do any other parts of the body work? The feet, the face—I mean, is it something about the hands?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister, and we are most pleased that you have asked this query. Consider the difficulties in holding knees or shoulders. Though these perhaps will suffice, they are most difficult to continue.

Carla: So, it’s not just because you have nerve endings in your hands, it’s just that hands grasp and shoulders don’t. Is that what you’re saying?

I am Latwii and again am aware of your query, my sister. This is basically correct, although the hands do have more of an ability to receive and send the vibrations which might intercept the aura and, therefore, impede the exit of the mind/body/spirit complex.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No. As I used to say, “Groovy.”

I am Latwii. We thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

N: Yes, Latwii, I have another question. It’s concerning the—it appears to me that the people who are close to me who kill themselves are very, very intelligent, and I was worried and wondering. It seems like a lot of people lately who are very intelligent have killed themselves that have been troubled before, and I’m wondering if they maybe see things that we don’t or know things we don’t. Is it that the Earth is in trouble, or are things going downhill quick, or is that just circumstance that happens to be around me a lot?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Those who have the aptitude for mental analysis are those who seek with a fine-pointed pen, shall we say. Each experience is written with the most minute of detail. Each portion, whether of the positive or the negative experience, is recorded, and observed, and felt with great depth. This is the potential of those with what you have called the mental acuity and intelligence. It is easy with such an ability to focus upon the difficulties, for it is difficulty which seems so apparent in your illusion. Though each difficulty has its solution, solutions do not seem so easily apparent and must be striven for with great dedication.

The propensity to remain with the view of difficulty, then, can be increased for one who has the ability to see the details which may escape another. If one cannot match the great ability to see the difficulty with an equal ability to see the faith, and the praise, and the thanksgiving, and the solution to such difficulty, then the difficulties may grow for such an entity, and if allowed to continue without the praise and the thanksgiving, without the finding of the Love and the Light of the one Creator within that situation, then it is possible for the effect to build an energy of itself which would not be as possible for one who did not observe so carefully and so minutely with the mental acuity.

May we answer you further, my sister?

N: It seems to me that there seems to be so much more killing and suicide, that it seems so hopeless, that, you know, people are just giving up easier and being angrier easier. Is that—are things getting worse or am I just around it more often?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. It is a correct observation that as your planet nears that called the harvest, the experiences of many shall be intensified, for as time for harvest grows short, the work in order to achieve harvest must be accomplished in a shorter time. When time is short, then intensity must replace the time that is no longer available. Great work in consciousness can be done in this short time that remains before the harvest of souls from your planet. There is, of course, the risk that the work shall be more difficult, yet there is the great opportunity to move forward in the process of evolution as has never been possible before upon this planet.

May we answer you further, my sister?

N: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I’d like to ask you to—as to the instrument’s fatigue, and discover whether or not the instrument should continue channeling.

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. As we scan this instrument, we find that there is increasing fatigue and concern upon the instrument’s part that it is not functioning in a clear fashion or it …

[Side two of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

…has found the necessity to divide its attention in order that the hand pressure may be increased at the same time that concepts are received and transmitted. We do, however, find that this instrument may continue for another query.

Questioner: I have a query that I would really like to ask. The one known as Jim has been the one that has been pretty much taken for granted in all of this. Everyone has been concerned about Carla. I would like to know if there is anything that we as a support group can do for Jim, and if there is a way that we can do it that would be acceptable to Jim. [Inaudible] Can you give me any suggestion? Prayer is understood, of course.

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. We shall ask the one known as Jim to step aside so that the opportunity for Christmas presents at this time do not overcome him. Now to continue. This entity appreciates …

[Laughter.]

I am Latwii, and we shall continue in appreciation of your appreciation. This entity appreciates as well all offerings of service, and can be aided by the one—we struggle for a word that is acceptable to this instrument—heartfelt and sincere sympathy for the one known as Don, and for this entity known as Jim, there is available by simply sending a Light and reminding this entity that all does not have to be done overnight.

May we answer you further?

Questioner: No, thank you, Latwii. Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you and each in this group. We find that it is the appropriate time to take our leave of this instrument and of this group. We thank this instrument for allowing us to speak to subjects which it had great difficulty in allowing the concepts concerning which to be a portion of its experience this evening. This instrument will yet learn humor, and we commend his continued attempt at it. Hard heads are often good heads in the end, with a simple whack or two.

We leave each in the appreciation of the difficulties each feels for the one that has departed. When brothers and sisters travel upon a difficult path, there is great support in the unity each provides, and the joy and laughter which each provides each. When one has departed, there is often the overwhelming grief that fills the vacuum. We hope that we have been able to inspire joy that can follow grief, for within your illusion it is necessary to forget that each and all is the one Creator in order that the one Creator might gain the greatest experiences with the greatest intensity, variety, and depth of possibilities. Thus is the one Creator known to Itself, and glorified by each portion of Itself. No matter what experience is gained, each is a treasure in this great journey of the One through the One to the One, and remember, my friends, that in truth, all is well. The journeys may turn and become seemingly difficult at each turn. Yet, the difficulties themselves are glories to the one Creator, for without them the Creator would be poorer in knowledge of Itself. What, then, can one offer to the one Creator but experience? Be of great joy and cheer in your journeys. Gather your experiences with the confidence that there can be no error too great to balance, no experience too traumatic to give joy for, and no life too short to be an infinite remembrance and glorification to the one Creator.

We are those known to you as Latwii. We leave you now in the everlasting Love and infinite Light of the one Creator which dwells in each entity and each portion of all experience. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

(Carla channeling)

I am Nona and spend only a few moments. We have been called to offer healing in Love and in Light for the sake of our infinite Creator, and in His service we serve, and, therefore, we pray that you with us vibrate and heal the entity for whom this healing has been requested over and over again. We thank you and we thank this instrument and we thank the universe that is such a place as [inaudible] the beauty and [inaudible] of Love. I am Nona.

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “What does it mean to accept the spiritual dispensation in our experiences? Unless we understand what it is to accept this dispensation, we cannot be prepared to accept it.

Regardless of the fact that many people pay lip service to a belief in God, many of them do not believe in God. True, they may believe that there is a God or have a belief about God, but they have no faith, no realization, no conviction because the nature of the bondman is to be in bondage to effect—to Love, worship, and fear anything that has form, that is visible as effect. It may be bodily health—the heart, liver, or lungs—or it may be dollar bills, investments, or home, but the Love and devotion and fear of most human beings are always directed at someone or something in the visible realm.

The son of the bondwoman is in bondage as long as some thought, thing, or person is necessary, and that is what constitutes humanhood. The new covenant of the new creature begins in the moment when we realize, “I and my Father are one,” and all that the Father has is mine. I look in no other direction than to the Infinite Invisible. Then what appears from within, I share gloriously, freely, joyously.”

The transition into divine sonship brings about that change from faith in the Infinite Invisible, in that which can never be seen, heard, tasted, touched, smelled—or even thought or reasoned. There has to be a faith without a reason for that faith. There must be an all-consuming inner conviction which agrees with this faith, even while not knowing what it is—an inner instinct, an inner intuition, an inner grace.

“There shall no sign be given”: The signs follow them that believe. When the faith comes; the signs follow. If we are given any sign, anything or any thoughts to which we can cling, then that thing or that thought is that upon which our faith rests instead of upon the Invisible which is God.”

Later this morning I arranged the chairs in the living room to accommodate the attendees for our public channeling meditation this afternoon.

This afternoon our public channeling meditation began at 1 pm with 12 attendees and instruments. After the Round Robin and the instruments were tuned, we played a tuning song, said the Lord’s Prayer and the channeling of Q’uo began. Some of the questions that were asked of Q’uo were: “Should we pray for peace when difficulties like war give us the opportunity to grow by using the catalyst of war?” “How do the different religions worship God?” and “How can I teach kids how to listen better so that they can learn how to write?”

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 28

Only This Love Abides

I am of the Holy Spirit of the consciousness of Jesus Christ. I greet you in unconditional and divine Love.

What does the Spirit have to say to the world this day? What comfort and consolation may mere words bring to those who dwell in the shadow of death; who live in constant fear of war and rumors of war?

Only this: Love abides. Where is the Spirit in this chaos of society? Love is in every budding flower; in every passing cloud; in the unfurling leaves of Easter days; in the smiles of children too innocent to know the burdens of intelligence. Love is a comfort within you that dwells in your heart.

As Spirit moves across the waters, so the Spirit of Jesus the Christ moves across the waters of your troubled consciousness, saying, “Peace; be still. Be still and know that I am the Lord, the Master, the chief of a Kingdom not visible upon your Earth, but within each heart that beats.” That is the Kingdom of which the Comforter speaks.

Gaze you, then, not upon the works of man to see the kingdom of the Father, but upon the works of the Father: the temples made of wildflowers, and trees, and the temple of your own heart and consciousness.

Enter into that tabernacle and be silent. And in that silence shall you find comfort, strength, renewal, and transformation.

We leave you in the peace of the Love that knows no bounds and is forever near, both now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session come from October 14, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I greet you in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. It is a great privilege to be with you, to share in your life experience at this time, and to be able to tread your path with you for this brief time as we, in speaking words through this instrument, attempt to do that which is beyond words, that is, to evoke a sense of mystery, of consciousness, so that we may aid you in your curiosity and encourage you in your seeking. Poor indeed is the man who has never asked a question, for riches do not lie in the answers but in the questions themselves. Therefore, we ask you this evening to examine what questions you have concerned yourselves about during this diurnal period. We do not care what conclusions you may have drawn but wish to focus only upon that which has been in the forefront of the mind this day.

This day are you rich or are you poor? Are your questions those of a petty and mundane nature, or have you instead asked this day for that which draws you outside of the world that you know? How rich you are if you have dressed yourself in seeking as if it were a festive garment and gone forth into your environment clad with the desire to know more, with a wonder as to how to serve better and with the rejoicing question: “How can I perceive such loveliness as this day has offered to me?”

We apologize for the pause. The instrument had become distracted by our message and had begun to analyze it—its own experience. This may make for a wiser instrument but not for a longer contact.

My friends, there is a great interest in your culture in what this instrument would call the bottom line, the final answer, the solution. Those who would be powerful within the illusion are those with a talent for creating situations within which their bottom line works, for you see, my friends, each of you has an inborn series of bottom lines. Each of you has ways of dealing with situations, typical solutions, and normal habits of mind. Without meditation, what occurs is that time and again the entity bounces around from situation to situation until it finds a situation where it fits, where its bottom line is the answer for the question implicit in the situation. This is unconscious and not to be scorned, for it is a way of learning. There is a quicker way of learning and that is to focus upon the questions and not upon the answers. My friends, you know the answers. That which we say to you is so utterly simplistic and so repetitious that you can have no doubt that you know what our opinion of the bottom line is. The bottom line is Love.

In this session Hatonn spoke about the questions that we have about our spiritual journey. They began by saying it is a privilege to be with you, to share in your life experience at this time, and to be able to tread your path with you for this brief time as we attempt to evoke a sense of mystery, of consciousness, so that we may aid you in your curiosity and encourage you in your seeking, for poor is the one who has never asked a question, for riches do not lie in the answers but in the questions, so we ask you to examine what questions you have concerned yourselves about during this day, but we do not care what conclusions you may have drawn but wish to focus upon that which has been in the forefront of your mind this day. Hatonn went on to ask: “Are you rich, or are you poor? Are your questions those of a petty and mundane nature, or have you instead asked this day for that which draws you outside of the world that you know? How rich you are if you have dressed yourself in seeking as if it were a festive garment and gone forth into your environment clad with the desire to know more, with a wonder as to how to serve better and with the rejoicing question: “How can I perceive such loveliness as this day has offered to me?” Then Hatonn said there is a great interest in your culture in what Carla would call the bottom line, so those who would be powerful within the illusion are those with a talent for creating situations within which their bottom line works, for each of you has an inborn series of bottom lines, and each of you has ways of dealing with situations, but without meditation what occurs is that time and again the entity bounces around from situation to situation until it finds where its bottom line is the answer for the question implied in the situation, but this is unconscious and not to be scorned, for it is a way of learning, so there is a quicker way of learning, and that is to focus upon the questions and not upon the answers since you know the answers, so that which we say to you is so repetitious that you can have no doubt that you know what our opinion of the bottom line is, for the bottom line is Love. On June 27, 1993, Q’uo describe the nature of Love:

The Creator created a great original Expression or Thought. This we have called the Logos or Love. This principle, this Love, created all that there is by the quantizing articulation of Light. Yet all that is created is of the nature of its parent source, which is Love. The reason for offering Love, appreciation, a blessing and thanksgiving to the infinite One is that the entity within incarnation is attempting to form its vibratory frequency more and more like that of the vibrational frequency of the one great original Thought, which is Love. The closer the seeker comes to matching that vibratory frequency, the more that entity will be perceived as offering praise and thanksgiving. This is true far beneath any articulation of words or even what you consider thoughts. Rather, it is in the nature of the way creation is built. That is, original Thought expresses in Love, thanks, blessing, praise, and rejoicing. Thusly, it is not a Creator hungry for praise and thanks that requires homage of its worshippers, but rather it is Love, it is reflected in Love, and in that infinite reflection lies truth.

But what is the question? What will you ask? What avenues will you seek? How much of the truth do you want to know within this fragile cage of your physical bodies? What great heart do you wish to realize? What great spirit do you wish to encompass? Will that fragile being that you are, full of earth and breath, be able to contain your deepest and highest hopes? How far can you reach? Meditation is a form of reaching within the vast infinity of your own being with the mute question, the question that has no words, and because it has no words and is not in any way articulated, it is the pure question and you will receive the purest answer with it, for you listen in silence just as you ask in silence, and you shall be answered also in silence but with a power that transcends our ability to express that which is creative, peaceful and energetic.

You here seek for nothing less than the key which shall open to you your universe, your creation, your Creator, and in asking for the Light, you ask that which transforms each of you into a source of that Light. The principle is simple, and difficult to grasp because of its simplicity. You are what you seek, therefore the choice of what you seek is all-important. We ask that you remove yourself from the question of what subjects you have sought answers regarding during this day. Take a longer view, each of you, and ask yourself, “With what attitude or point of view did I seek and ask regarding each subject, each situation, each relationship, each seeming difficulty or moment of joy?” That which is within you has an intimate and ultimate power. So, seek you well, for you shall be aware of what you now ask. You shall receive that which you seek. Be oh so very careful in your seeking, for we would not guide you upon a tour of many planes and dimensions, many masters and teachers and wise ones, many wanderers and circuses and shows full of spectacular fireworks. It goes without saying that there are techniques by which you can use your seeking in order to experience that which is novel, exciting, and seemingly significant. We wish to home you back to the one beacon that lies within yourself that is a pure Light and a pure Love, that which lies behind all the displays of the journey upon which you have set your foot. We, in fact, offer a sort of surface service ourselves. Our speaking through instruments such as this one is novel. However, it is much less novel and far more open to doubt than our appearing among your people and speaking as if we were infallible. Therefore, since we wish to aid you and must needs use communication of some kind, we choose the least showy display, the least gaudy method of sharing a philosophy which is not an end in itself but is only meant to point you to your own senses of discrimination, of determination, of faith and hope.

Hatonn continued by saying: “What is the question? What will you ask? What avenues will you seek? How much of the truth do you want to know within this fragile cage of your physical bodies? What great heart do you wish to realize? What great spirit do you wish to encompass? Will that fragile being that you are, full of earth and breath, be able to contain your deepest and highest hopes? How far can you reach?” Then Hatonn said meditation is a form of reaching within the infinity of your being with the question that has no words, and because it has no words it is the pure question, and you will receive the purest answer with it, for you listen in silence just as you ask in silence, and you shall be answered also in silence but with a power that transcends our ability to express that which is creative, peaceful, and energetic. Hatonn went on to say you seek the key which shall open to you your creation, your Creator, and in asking for Light, you ask that which transforms you into a source of Light, and you are what you seek, so the choice of what you seek is important, and we ask that you remove yourself from the question of what subjects you have sought answers to this day, and ask yourself: “With what point of view did I seek and ask regarding each subject, each situation, each relationship, each seeming difficulty or moment of joy?” Now Hatonn said that which is within you has a power, so seek well, for you shall be aware of what you seek, for you shall receive that which you seek, but be careful in your seeking, for we would not guide you upon a tour of many dimensions, many masters, and many wanderers, for there are techniques by which you can use your seeking in order to experience that which is significant, yet we wish to bring you back to the one beacon that lies within yourself that is pure Light and Love, that which lies behind all the displays of the journey upon which you have set your foot, for we offer a service by speaking through instruments such as Carla is novel, but it is more open to doubt than our appearing among your people and speaking as if we were infallible because we wish to aid you and need to use communication of some kind, so we chose the least showy way of sharing a philosophy which is not an end in itself but is meant to point you to your sense of discrimination, of faith and hope. On July 16, 2005, Q’uo spoke of the nature of faith and hope:

You are the secret agent of energies such as faith and hope. As entities about you see that you are undismayed by the apparent chaos around you, that you are hopeful in the face of all that you do not at all deny but instead, embrace, there comes to Light within entities which dared not hope before the attractive possibility of hope. As entities see you launching yourself into the mid-air of a fool, leaping into the abyss by faith alone and then, as they notice that you are riding that abyss in joy, there awakens within beings to which faith was previously a stranger that possibility of another way of looking at the illusion of planet Earth. As you penetrate the illusion, your eyes seeing clearly the Light and Love of the one infinite Creator, those who look into your eyes know what they cannot express and see what they cannot describe, and, for the first time, they believe in the possibility of faith.

We share with you one thing—the original Thought of the one Creator. We share with you ways to put yourself more in line with the shadow of that great Thought. We set your feet upon the path that leads from shadow into Light. We can direct you no further than yourself. The meditative and gently analytical methods of touching that tangent which you have with the one original Thought and with processing in a useful way your own experiences is our gift to you. It is an answer of sorts. What was your question? Never trust answers, for the only generalizations that work are those so simple and so controlled as to have little metaphysical use. Over and over you may say to yourself as if it were an answer that is infallible, “I am learning a lesson of Love. I am learning a lesson of Love.” This has value. But to the seeker there is far more value in saying, “What am I perceiving, what am I learning, where is Love now, right now in this moment?” You cannot tell yourself what you are learning; you must ask. And the answers may well be different than those you would create for yourself. Free yourself from the limitation of your own expectations and ask—with care, with sincerity, and with constancy. All else shall follow.

Then Hatonn said we share with you the original Thought of the one Creator, and we share ways to put yourself in line with the shadow of that great Thought, so we set your feet upon the path that leads from shadow into Light, but we can direct you no further than yourself, and the meditative method of touching that contact which you have with the one original Thought and with processing in a useful way your experiences is our gift to you, for it is an answer of sorts, but never trust answers, for the only generalizations that work are those so simple as to have little metaphysical use, so you may say to yourself as if it were an answer that is infallible, “I am learning a lesson of Love. I am learning a lesson of Love,” and this has value, but to the seeker there is more value in asking: “What am I perceiving, what am I learning, where is Love now, right now in this moment?” Hatonn said you cannot tell yourself what you are learning; you must ask, and the answers may be different than those you would create for yourself, so free yourself from the limitation of your expectations and ask with sincerity, and all else shall follow. On February 15, 1976, Hatonn revealed where Love is:

Where is Love in this situation? If you are quiet and if you meditate, truth will come to you. The water will become evident. And that portion of your consciousness will be made whole by your understanding of Love. Know ye, my friends, that we are all one. In pain or in pleasure, healing is in knowing that the Creator lies in every breath of air that you breathe, in every plant that gives you pleasure, in every bite of food that gives you health, in all of the friends and all of the enemies you are looking at the Creator. All is one.

We leave this instrument, grateful that this instrument has been able to clear its mind that we may use it. This is an ongoing process for each of you and we recommend it, for each of you is a channel, a pipeline, if you will, and that which flows from you is that which has come through you. You share your consciousness with all the energies which you have developed. You develop your energies and attract the principles of those energies by the process of asking, of reaching, of hope, of beginning again each and every moment that you stumble.

We thank you, my friends, for being yourselves. It is a great and honorable thing to be in company with you. It is now appropriate that we leave, for this instrument is fatigued. We leave you only in the sense that we shall refrain from speaking through an instrument. Ours is one energy, the principle of which you have attracted by your asking. We are with you as comforters, as strengtheners, as comrades, as those who Love each of you at any time that you may wish that companionship. We are those of Hatonn, and we leave you now in the Love and the Light of the one great original Thought that is the Creator, the creation, and the created. Adonai, O Creation. Adonai, O Creator. Adonai, Questioners. So, we greet you. Adonai.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the love and in the light of our infinite Creator. We are privileged once again to be asked to join your group, and we thank each of you for so asking. Our service, as you know, is a simple one which we sometimes seem to make complex, and that is the attempt to answer those queries on your minds which you as seekers have interest in. May we begin, then, with the first query for this evening?

J: Latwii, I have a query. I thought my dog’s ears were getting better, but I find that they are not. Can you tell me what’s going on?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. As we look upon this entity which is described as the dog, we see the ears which have the continuing difficulty of the parasitical infection. For the second-density creature, there is little symbolism in such a difficulty. It is, shall we say, for such a creature, a world in which there are many diseases and physical challenges to overcome by one means or another. This particular difficulty with the ears serves the purpose of allowing this entity to receive the attention from you and other third-density beings which then causes an investment for individualization of this entity, thus increasing its chances of harvest, shall we say. It is often the case that the means by which such a second-density creature chooses to receive the opportunity of investment are means which the third-density entity will find to be discomforting. To the one known as the dog, upon its basic level of awareness, the infection of the ear, then, is a means by which it expands its beingness. To you, the owner of this entity, shall we say, such a means is not apparent and is indeed perplexing. The interaction between the two of you is the dog’s purpose fulfilled, that is, to be invested, and also is a portion of your purpose fulfilled, that is, to learn to give Love.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Does that mean that the ear is never going to be healed?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my brother. We cannot say whether this infectious situation shall be healed, for the future is quite full of possibility. We may say that this second-density creature shall continue in its efforts to gain investment and individualization, whether they be along this line or another.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Well, I have done everything possible. I have taken it to veterinarian schools, I have taken it to veterinarians to have cultures taken; I have bought medicines; and I really want to heal this dog, and nothing’s happening. Is it the dog himself that doesn’t want to get well or cured?

I am Latwii and am aware of this query, my brother. We may say that this creature has a desire for growth which utilizes that called a disease, and that this desire for its own evolution is the greatest force within its being.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Well, I don’t understand, but—listen, let me go on to the second query that I have. I had a dream the other night, and I dreamed that I was here in meditation. But while I was here in meditation, I was all nude, I didn’t have any clothes. Everybody was very gracious and made believe that they didn’t see anything, and I cannot understand the dream. I would like to know what it meant.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. We find that our response must be considered under the Law of Confusion, that is, we do not wish to work so much of this riddle for you that your own efforts then will not produce the fruit which is available. We may suggest, however, that one look upon the newborn infant. This entity is not swaddled upon the birthing. It enters the world of its experience without clothing. It enters pure and fresh without the feeling of shame or guilt and is, therefore, ready to embark upon a new adventure. As it embarks upon this adventure, it shall learn to wear various kinds of clothing for various purposes. As you look at your experience in this group, look you then to the new portion of your being which seeks to be born.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Very good. I have a better perspective now. May I ask you a question about the Christ? I have read four different versions of people who have contacted Christ, and each one was different. What can you tell me about this?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. We may say that the one known as Jesus the Christ is an entity which has great bearing and influence upon the peoples of this planet, for its incarnation was completed in a fashion which set a model, shall we say. This entity prepared a way which each may utilize in some fashion, as each is the seeker of that of which the one known as Jesus Christ was also a seeker and He did find that which He sought. As those entities of your planet who have interest in this entity and its particular means of seeking travel their own path of seeking, many are of such strong desire to know the one known as Jesus the Christ and to know this entity’s path that they are, indeed, in contact with this entity in some form or manner, for all entities of the nature of the Christed one who are called by the seekers are then responsible for answering in some manner the call. It is an honor to be called, and a duty to respond.

But the difficulty for many of your people in understanding such response are the many distortions which each entity holds in regards to the one known as Jesus and the path that a Christed one may follow. Therefore, the response to such a call is filtered through the various beliefs, habits, and rituals of the one who calls. In few instances is the response received in its pure form. It is as though one of your sociological experiments is completed upon the metaphysical level, that is, a circle of entities partake in an experiment in which one entity begins to whisper into the ear of another a story, and when the story is completed, then the entity first hearing the story whispers into another ear, until at the end of many translations of this story, the final story has some resemblance and some distortion in respect to the original story.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: How is one to know the original story, then?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. One may find the closest approximation to the original story by seeking in such a manner that one goes within the self, and seeks, and calls, and waits with patience, for all calls are answered. No seeker is abandoned to seek alone. In this manner may you find your own desire, your own call, and your own answer. Do not be discouraged if your answers seem to differ from those about you. Within your illusion each has distortion. That is not to cause discouragement, but is able …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii and am once again with this instrument. To continue our response. Do not be discouraged by distortion. It is the nature of your illusion and allows your experiences to occur. If there were no darkness and no distortion, there would be no experience.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: No, that’s very good. I have some other questions, but I think I’ll hold them off for awhile because this is too much for me to digest. May I come back some other time with a few more questions, sir?

I am Latwii, and am most honored to attempt response to any query at any time. It is our honor, my brother.

J: Thank you.

Latwii: Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I have two questions. One is minor, and one is I also had an odd bit of a dream stick with me. I dreamt that I had been writing a letter, and I translated it at the same time into another language. The translation was in italics. When I got to the end, instead of signing my name, I drew a heart in the original language, and underneath it I drew the same heart in italics. And I wondered what it is that I am attempting to translate.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Again, we give that which does not infringe. You may look at that which is the translation, see the words upon the page, grasp the feeling from the words. It is not the individual word or words which carries the point, but the feeling of the entire message, for you have italicized the complete message and, therefore, have placed emphasis or weight upon its total being. Look then to your own being, and see what feelings arise as you scan the message. Look there to your heart, and see what is the feeling that grows as you continue to look upon the message. Then take that which you have found by this investigation and see where in your own waking life there is a feeling of this nature, and see then how it might be translated into the action which is the fabric of your experience.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Not on that point, thank you. The question that was not trivial, but which you probably can’t answer any more than you already have, is how can I be of any more service than I already am to Don?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We see in such a situation the great desire to serve. We see the difficulty in knowing what is the best service. This is the difficulty for each entity inhabiting your illusion, for nothing is plain, and the darkness of knowing that all is the Creator is that which promotes the Creator’s experience. As you find one who has long sought the one Creator now seems to sit upon a rock along the trail and seeks no further, one would then ask the self if there might be some way in which this entity was falling short of its seeking and could then be aided by another to rejoin the path of the seeker. This assumes that one can err, and that one can fall short, and in one sense we can assure that such is true at all times for all seekers, for your illusion is so well constructed that all shall fall short of their goals. Yet each in some fashion continues to seek, for each is still the one Creator, and in this regard can commit no error, for even sitting upon a stone, the one Creator experiences sitting upon a stone. Yet another may still wish to aid an entity who not only sits upon a stone, but may seem to another to be wounded. How to aid the one who is wounded and sitting upon a stone, not seeming to tend its own wound? We suggest that the offers be made, that service as best as one can describe it be offered, that all offers be made without dedication to any particular result, for who can say what path another should travel? One can only be and offer being to another, and then trust that all is well if it is truly so that all is one.

The greatest difficulty that an entity who wishes to aid another will face is the difficulty of accepting whatever depends from the situation, for many are the desires for another’s well-being, and many are the attempts to fashion that well-being for another, yet it is not possible to learn for another. One may only present the self in service without dedication, for this is Love. There are no conditions and no guarantees in your illusion, my sister.

May we answer you further?

Carla: No.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

J: Latwii, may I please ask you one more question about my dog’s ears? Is there anything that I can put into the ear that would help to eliminate the parasite?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. We are quite without degree when it comes to the field of veterinary medicine. We feel that those efforts which have been made by those of this profession are, within our limited scope of knowledge, the most that can be done. In many cases you will find the disease which lingers past all treatment; then it is that one must look to the deeper nature of the disease, its symbol and potential. To this particular topic we have previously spoken. We ask your forgiveness for not being able to prescribe any effective treatment.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: No, thank you. It’s just that I’m obsessed with this, and I want to get all of it. Thank you very much, sir.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my brother, sir. May we attempt another query?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we find that for the nonce we have exhausted those queries at the precise moment that the feline creatures are gathering their own energies for action. We thank each for allowing our humble service to be rendered within this group once again. It is our great joy and privilege to join you upon these occasions, and we treasure each. We shall leave this group as is our custom, in the Love and in the Light of the One Which Is All. We are those of Latwii, and we leave you at this time in that Love and Light. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “This moment is now. This moment—this now—we have the opportunity to reject our humanness and accept the divinity of our being. But it is beyond our immediate capacity to do that at this moment. Later on tonight we shall discover that it is also now, and in that nowness, we are again face to face with the opportunity to accept or reject the divinity of our being. If we are not prepared to receive it then, there will be tomorrow afternoon, net year, or the year after; and each time that the opportunity to realize our divine being comes to our thought, it will be now. A hundred years from now, it will be now to us.

Now is always the time to accept our divinity, but while that now may come to us at this moment, to some it may have come years ago, and to some it may come years later. Whether or not it comes at this particular hour of the clock or some other hour, whenever it comes, it will be now. Each of us has to face every moment of every day unto eternity, and those of us who, for one reason or another, are not able at this particular time to accept the covenant of our liberty, the liberty wherewith we are “clothed upon” when we accept Christhood, will still have a new and fresh opportunity throughout all ages.

Those who have gone on before us as human beings and have left our visible sight, some in gross spiritual darkness and some in actual sin and degradation, also exist now, and they too, have the same opportunity now that they had when they rejected it here on Earth, only now they may have developed a greater capacity to accept it.”

Later this morning I vacuumed the first floor of my home.

This afternoon I went outside and walked around the yard and picked up the small tree limbs that have blown down in recent rainstorms, and I put them in a garbage can. Then I spread Epsom Salts around the fishpond to repel raccoons because last night’s rain washed the Epsom Salts away that I put around the fishpond two days ago.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 27

A Nation Of Priests

I am the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine Love.

The concept of nations among your people has not been aided by the Holy Spirit’s work within those who long ago formed the nation you call Israel.

Let the Spirit of Christ proclaim that humankind is a nation of priests, an order holy to God. The state of Israel was not intended literally, nor do any nations, namings, or boundaries form a portion of the full and perfect consciousness which is Love.

Nay! Rather, Love is that city within each which, like Jerusalem of your holy works, shines with the gems, pearls, and precious metals, seas of crystal and Light without limit. The kingdom of heaven, not the kingdom or nation of Israel or any other place, is the native land of humankind.

Its comforts reach out to you. Its beacon calls. And all the memories of home thrill one’s spirit as one gazes about the confusingly alien landscape of the smaller life of Earth-bound things.

Think not that a holy nation must needs conquer or be conquered. For the only nation that shall be holy shall be the nation with open arms and free consciousness to Love all as priests of God in Christ should indeed do. Only in undifferentiated Love may peace come to comfort the pilgrim.

We leave you in peace, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn channeling for this session come from October 7, 1984:

(S channeling)

I am Hatonn, and we are pleased to greet you this evening in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator. We have been with this instrument for some time as requested, and we are grateful for the opportunity to speak a few words through her this evening. We are grateful also for your gracious invitation and we are pleased to be able to offer to your group our service.

We find that we often have difficulty in finding new and more exquisite ways of praising that message which is invariably simple and always the same. We are not always able to speak in a manner that is precise, for the same simple message may seem to some to be tedious or repetitive. However, we assure you, dear friends, that the message is the message of Love, and no amount of words can ever express that which is so simple than to use the word Love. The meaning of the word often gets lost upon your planet and few seldom stop and think about this word when it is heard or spoken.

The immensity in this single simple word is truly overwhelming. The thought or the energy that goes into this word is, indeed, more powerful than we are able to express. The energy that is received when this word is truly felt is a powerful influence. To picture Love as a very small and insignificant four-letter word is to deprive that word of its true and deeper meaning. Take not this word lightly. Take this word to heart and within your own consciousness expand that simple word to its ever-reaching potential. Let not those four small letters get lost in a haze of many letters. Let them stand out and shine with the power that is truly within the thought behind the word. Its immensity is truly beyond comprehension. We shall leave this instrument at this time and once again we thank her for this opportunity. I am Hatonn.

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I greet you in the Love and the Light of our infinite Creator. We shall continue through this instrument. We speak of the one original Thought. The simplicity of our message is deceptive. It deceives in that it is far more difficult to do those things which are simple, yet deep, than to accomplish those things which may take many steps, but which are laid out before you as it were so that each step was well known. We can give you no recipe for grasping, experiencing, or manifesting Love. We can only offer the tools of inspiration through messages such as this one and the inward silent listening which is called meditation or prayer. Sometimes when we speak to a small group, we are able to speak more to the heart of individual’s needs, and that is so this evening. We would begin the, shall we say, variation upon a theme of the incredible relief of [inaudible] by moving backwards in your way of thinking until you reach that you feel is before all other things real. Shall you call this island in space which is to your heart real? It would seem to be real. Shall we call the steady progression of seasons and your time real? The progression would seem to be quite real and dependable. Yet you are not seeking because you wish to find the real things that you can hold. You are seeking as do all because of the firm suspicion, if not downright belief, that behind that which is touchable there lies that which is more real which created that which you see and experience.

It is the fervent hope of most who ponder such things that this force, principle, or other reality have some structure and [inaudible], so that each of you is not living in anarchy and chaos, and, indeed, we believe that that is the case. And we have termed that which is behind all things, that which has created all things, that which is the one original Thought. Of course it beggars the imagination. It is too simple. We shall through this instrument explore one portion of the nature of the Creator for a while, for that particular variation has been on the mind of the instrument and has a margin of interest for the rest.

In this session Hatonn spoke of how we can manifest the Love of the Creator on our spiritual journey. They began by saying we speak of the one original Thought, and the simplicity of our message is deceptive, for it deceives in that it is more difficult to do those things which are simple, yet deep, than to do those things which take many steps, but which are laid out before you, so that each step was well known, but we can give you no recipe for manifesting Love, so we can offer the tools of inspiration through messages such as this one and the silent listening of meditation or prayer, for  sometimes when we speak to a small group, we are able to speak more to the heart of an individual’s needs, and that is so this evening, so we would begin the variation upon a theme of the relief of [inaudible] by moving backwards until you reach that which you feel is before all other things real, so: “Shall you call this island in space which is to your heart real? Shall we call the steady progression of seasons and your time real?” Now Hatonn said the progression would seem to be real and dependable, yet you are not seeking because you wish to find the real things that you can hold, but you are seeking as do all because of the belief that behind that which is touchable there lies that which is more real which created that which you see and experience. Hatonn went on to say it is the hope of most who ponder such things that this force or other reality have some structure and [inaudible], so that each of you is not living in anarchy and chaos, and we believe that that is the case, so we have termed that which has created all things, that which is the one original Thought, for it beggars the imagination, and we shall through Carla explore one portion of the nature of the Creator for that variation has been on her mind and has some interest for the rest. On November 21, 1982, Latwii described the nature of the one original Thought:

Consider that what you seek is a portion of the one original Thought. That Thought is unity. That Thought of the one Creator has allowed each portion of Itself to travel through free will within the creation of the one original Thought. The journey takes many turns. Yet within each moment, Love exists. Within each moment, the Creator resides in full at all times. That this is not recognized does not diminish its truth. Such difficulties provide the stimulus for the inner seeking as the outer world begins to fade, for it becomes apparent to the seeker that Love may best be found within the heart of the being. Love then found there might be radiated, as a beacon shines light in the darkest portion of the night. Sorrow and suffering then motivate those feeling the suffering to seek more and more within, more and more in that portion of your illusion which Love inhabits purely and always readily available.

We would speak to the virtue of a characteristic that is often thought among your people to be a hindrance. That characteristic is what you may call weakness. Within your third-density experience, again and again compliments, and the regard of others are given to those who are seen to be strong: strong-willed, strong in ambition, strong to endure, strong to wait, strong in the face of adversity, powerful with people, with events, and with the forces of unplanned adversity which often appear to be emergencies. Far too little credit is given to the characteristic known among your people as weakness. There is a saying within this instrument’s memory, “If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, you may lack awareness of the situation.” Weakness is frequently the appearance which an entity gives who has such a firm grasp upon the situation that the entity is aware there is nothing that can be done, and that, therefore, there is nothing to do about something. It often may appear that such a person is weak, but in actuality the person is far stronger than the one who thinks, struggles, and attempts to control others and forces which are beyond any reasonable control. Let us use as an example that weakest of all the elements. For earth is heavy, fire light, and the air whispering. Water, as it rains on the cedars, bespeaks of that which does not have strength.

Then Hatonn spoke of the concept of weakness. So, they said we would speak to the virtue of a characteristic that is often thought among your people to be a hindrance, and that characteristic is weakness, so within your third-density experience the regards of others are given to those who are strong-willed and powerful with people, with events, and with the forces of unplanned adversity which often appear to be emergencies, for little credit is given to the characteristic of weakness, and there is a saying within Carla’s memory, “If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, you may lack awareness of the situation,” for weakness is the appearance which an entity gives who has a firm grasp upon the situation that the entity is aware there is nothing that can be done, and there is nothing to do about it, yet often it may appear that such a person is weak, but in actuality the person is stronger than the one who struggles and attempts to control others and the forces which are beyond reasonable control, so let us use as an example that weakest of all the elements, for earth is heavy, fire light, and the air whispering, but water, as it rains on the cedars, speaks of that which does not have strength. On April 18, 1993, Q’uo spoke of the concept of weakness:

For each seeker there is the cycle of experience which manifests in mind, body, and spirit energy levels, and their continual shifting from strength to weakness as catalyst is processed within the environment of your third-density illusion. Thus, there are times when each seeker will find that it is more fully infused with this vital energy or the combination of energy of mind, body, and spirit.

There will be times when the seeker finds itself low and somewhat disabled by its lethargy. There will be far more times where the seeker will find itself moving between these extremes, as the cycles of each energy complex move independently and harmoniously with each other. We find that there are many factors which may be commented upon in relation to your current condition. However, the most fundamental feature of your experience of lowered energy levels is that you are within the trough or downward portion of the overall experience of your mind, body, and spirit energy levels or, again, as we have called this combination, the vital energy level.

[The remaining channeling becomes increasingly inaudible. Ellipses indicate inaudible portions.]

We do not mean to confuse you by looking at the waters and the wind as people. No, my friends, we speak now of water as it goes about the business of gentle rain which soaks into the earth, runs into the ocean, and is evaporated. This has a tremendous … for personal growth. If the ground is … with … or paved with concrete, water attempts no … but is instead attracted without … to one of two things. The living … for … or the force of … to gravity which calls it be lower … Already we have described the incredible Creator-healer … force for he goes …

But let us look … In your imagination … imagine the feeling that … The earth begins … Water … The infinite … Water is without … It is not … it will not … And as it … As you gaze at each … imagine the … the water which moves in streams … There are many changes, shall we say within your illusion … Those who choose to … This entity has for several of … Then slowly … weeks of … to leave … And yet … Whereas the seeming strength of … would have … There is a progression within each … Within this progression there are … The desire to give service to others …

[Inaudible to the end of the tape.]

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “In our humanhood, we are the people of the bondwoman, in subjection to the flesh and its claims, in bondage to the things, thoughts, and activities of the flesh, whether it be this flesh of the body or the flesh called money or other forms of human living. Living in and through the flesh as the offspring of the bondwoman, we are under the laws of matter the laws of economics, and the laws of race, religion, and nationality—under the covenant “which gendereth to bondage.” The other covenant is that of our spiritual adoption, which comes through a conscious activity within our own consciousness and at a time when we are prepared for that transition because the transition from humanhood to spiritual sonship is made only by Grace.

When a person says that they would like to be a child of God and be free of the burdens of the flesh, usually they do not really mean it. What they mean is that they would like to be free of the burdens of the flesh but retain the pleasures and the profits of the flesh. It is for this reason that as human beings we cannot choose to be children of God.

But there does come a time in the consciousness of every one of us—with some now and with some many lifetimes from now—when, through an inner Grace, we are able and willing not only to be rid of the ills of the flesh but also of the pleasures and profits of the flesh, and to become acquainted with our spiritual identity or Selfhood, with that new creature—not of the one made healthy, not the old one made honorable, but a new creature which is born of the Spirit. This is the transitional experience.

To be born of the Spirit means to be reborn through a transition of consciousness and this rebirthing can occur while we are on this very plane of consciousness known as the Earth, or it can take place after we have left this sphere. It is well to remember that if we fail to make the transition here, there will always be the opportunity for us to make it hereafter because in the kingdom of God there is no time. There it is always now, and this now is always presenting itself to us with fresh opportunities.”

Later this morning I went outside and used the garden hose to fill the fishpond up about six inches since this much water seems to have disappeared once again, but the fountain is still running normally. While the fishpond was filling with water I finished hand weeding the Solomon Seal flower behind the garage. After the fishpond was at its normal level I threw a cup of AquaSafe into the water to neutralize the chlorine.

This afternoon I used  my hedge clippers to trim the dead blooms off of the Vanilla-Strawberry Hydrangeas in front of the fishpond. Then I used Huff and Puff to blow the dead blooms into a pile so that I could put them into a garbage can. Then I used some Windex, a squeegee, and a rag to clean the living room window that looks out into the back yard. Then I cleaned the window behind my chair in the living room.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 26

Bloom In Due Season

I am of the principle of the most high; of the consciousness of divine Love. I greet you in peace.

The sun shines, beckoning to spring. Spring comes to the sun as a dove to its dovecote or the weary cow to its barn. For one more cycle the travail of Earth is over. And, born anew from the dead and sleeping land, new life appears, shyly peeking from the safety of the soil’s womb but drawn ever onward by the nourishing warmth of the sun and the blessing of the rain.

So, it is with each of you who are seeds. You are planted in the soil of your humanity. What can you do with the seed that you carry within you? Nothing. You may only improve the soil, cultivate that small plot where your spirit may rise in bud and bloom in due season.

If it be wintertime in your heart, it is time to accept that each seed needs times of deep contemplation and the gathering of energy. But when each sees that first glimmer of sunlight, let your spirit be glad. Let your heart leap for joy within you.

May you prepare your soul in all gladness for the beautiful blossom that lies budded and waiting within you.

We leave you in the peace of Christ Jesus, now and evermore. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session come from August 26, 1984:

(S channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I am pleased to greet you this evening in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator. We have spent some moments of your time with this instrument as she requested, so that we might be prompt in speaking through her this evening. We hope we have not caused alarm to any who were planning on a longer wait this evening. We are grateful for the opportunity to be with this instrument, as she is sometimes hesitant to allow our vibrations to come through her, but we feel we have a splendid mixing this evening.

We are often surprised by the amount of confusion that overwhelms some of your people at this time, for we sometimes think that it would be so simple if your people were able to escape this confusion by simply allowing themselves to enter their own being where the confusion is less apparent. But this is not always the case. We look upon your planet with Love and hope in our hearts, and we are so honored when the Love from groups such as this is returned to us, and we are grateful for the Love and Light that is shared between us. We are always hopeful and ever looking forward to the next meeting, and we look upon those past meetings with a good feeling in our hearts, and we are humbled by the Love expressed at these times.

The anger upon your planet is often very easy to see, the Love sometimes more difficult. But for us the feeling of Love is very powerful and runs deeply through many of your people. The Love is not always expressed openly in an aggressive manner, but be assured, dear friends, that Love expands and is felt throughout the universe. The continuous pumping of Love, as if from a heart, to the ends of creation is a pulse that is felt by all, and there are times when your planet beats strongly.

We realize that that which is printed in your newspapers is not usually of this nature, and one must realize that the newspaper is not the place to find this feeling. In your quiet states allow yourself to relax and feel the Love as it beats and pulses around and through your very being, for it continues from each entity and it reaches to the ends of creation, and it does not become a smaller quantity as it reaches out further. As the Love pulses, so does it multiply, and so does it become greater, ever moving onward, ever more powerful, and ever making a louder pulse. Become aware of the Love that you send, and allow it to flow freely, for we and all of creation are grateful for that which you are generous enough to send.

We would transfer to another instrument at this time. I am Hatonn.

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn. We must adjust to this instrument’s vibrations, if you will allow us to pause briefly.

[Pause]

We greet you once again in the Love and in the Light of the infinite Creator. As this heart of Love pulses, my friends, so does the entire creation pulse, each Logos, as you would call it, pulsing in its own depth of Love and sending forth the slightest variation on the universal signal which is the beat of the universe as it contracts and flows forward. Much has been made of your astrology, but we say to you that the most vital portion of this art is the specific note of the music of the heartbeat which pulses from each of your stars and, in a larger sense, of your galaxy. Indeed, there are influences upon you from the heavens in that you have rhythms, the beating of your heart, the intake of your breath and all your diurnal and monthly cycles. As you go through these cycles, it is as if there were Light beamed upon you, shone through different colored lenses, each color affecting you slightly differently, so that your rhythm sings with a slightly different mellowness or harshness. There is great creativity in the unending variety and equally never-ending predictability of the cycles of these hearts of Love, which shine and send their radiations of Love and Light to the universe, and, as you stand where you may be affected, to you personally.

In your turn, you yourself may affect the universe. Not upon any level that you may understand in a dramatic and mundane way, but you may think of the experience of gazing down at countryside as you fly through the darkness. There is a light here and one there, and you know that you are passing through a very uninhabited place. And suddenly, as you cross the crest of a mountain or a hill, you see before you the lights of a great city. So are your Light groups. Such is the nature of Love that those even two or three, as it says in your holy works, who gather together in order to seek Light and to offer Light and Love to the creation may form a Light that is as exciting and visible as one of your great cities. This is due to the fact that truly a group is not the sum of its parts but is far greater. Each has a vibratory dynamic with each other in a group. Each further has invoked or evoked a principle or a truth. You have evoked that which is truth, that which is Love. Yours is what may be called a universal or cosmic invocation. Other groups may invoke people which have inspired them or forces of nature. When any group meets together in Love and invokes or evokes that which is positive, the Light is born and it pulsates, throbs, enjoins with other lights, other groups, other centers, other great beings which are not of your space and time but are on other planes of existence and which vibrate in harmony with you as you seek Love.

In this session Hatonn spoke about our lessons of Love. They began by saying as this heart of Love pulses, so does the entire creation pulse, each Logos pulsing in its own depth of Love and sending forth the variation on the universal signal which is the beat of the universe as it contracts and flows forward, and much has been made of astrology, but we say that the vital portion of this art is the specific note of the music of the heartbeat which pulses from each of your stars and, in a larger sense, of your galaxy, so there are influences upon you from the heavens in that you have rhythms: the beating of your heart, the intake of your breath, and all your diurnal and monthly cycles, for as you go through these cycles, it is as if there were Light beamed upon you, shone through different colored lenses, each color affecting you differently, so that your rhythm sings with a different mellowness or harshness, for there is creativity in the unending variety and never-ending predictability of the cycles of these hearts of Love, which shine and send their radiations of Love and Light to the universe, and to you personally. Now Hatonn said you may affect the universe but not upon a dramatic or mundane way, but you may think of the experience of gazing down at the countryside as you fly through the darkness, for there is a light here and one there, and you know that you are passing through an uninhabited place, and as you cross the crest of a mountain, you see the lights of a great city, so are your Light groups, yet such is the nature of Love that when two or three gather together in order to seek Light and to offer Light and Love to the creation they may form a Light that is as exciting as one of your great cities, and this is because a group is not the sum of its parts but is far greater, for each has a vibratory dynamic with each other in a group, and each has invoked or evoked a principle or a truth, so you have invoked that which is truth and Love, for yours is a cosmic invocation, but other groups may invoke people which have inspired them or forces of nature, so when any group meets together in Love and invokes or evokes that which is positive, the Light is born, and it pulsates with other lights, other groups or other great beings which are not of your space and time but are on other planes of existence and which vibrate in harmony with you as you seek Love. On November 3, 1985, Hatonn spoke of the value of Light groups:

When groups of entities meet together, the Light blazes far, far brighter than by merely addition, for each gives each strength, clarity, and purity of being, each giving unto each the gift of Light. That is why your so-called Light groups are crucial, always have been, and always shall be. They are centers, if you will, of focus for that which is lightest in all people to have a safe place to be vulnerable and to shine forth in the darkness.

We who have served with the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator within your sphere of influence for some time, as you call it, have seen more, and more, and more lights glowing in the darkness. Their radiance is growing brighter and there are beginning to be networks formed, networks of Light, traceries like lace encircling the darkened spiritual metaphysical planes of your Earth world. However, we do not want to emphasize overly much the function of the group, for each entity goes forth from the group and yet is still an entity holding as in the holograph all of the Light of consciousness, all of the fresh and living radiance of the one original Thought.

Indeed, my friends, as you seek you present a beautiful and glorious feast for our eyes and for our hearts, and we wish to take this opportunity to encourage you, knowing how many times you feel that you have fallen and failed but yet knowing the determination to seek once more, always and ever, that which is Love. The nature of Love has been approached in so many ways within your philosophers’ works, your so-called religions, your poems, and your books. It has been dismembered and analyzed by those who call themselves psychologists and scientists, and yet we say to you that Love is not at all understood. We say this to you, knowing that this, to your sorrow perhaps, you know all too well, for you seek to learn the lessons of Love, and the lessons are elusive. We would offer to you this evening only a short tale that may illustrate one way of looking at the manifestation of the original Thought of the Creator, a manifestation that is available to all who seek with no exceptions, for it is within you. It is, shall we say, an over-the-counter commodity, its simplicity so staggering that the mind can hardly deal with the true nature of the manifestation of Love.

And so, we shall begin by saying, “Once upon a time,” as you begin your stories. Once upon a time there was a king. He was not a great king; he was not a cruel king; he was a mediocre king. There were many about him. There was the queen who gave great feasts and parties and entertainments so that her king could make a toast proud of his house, and his wealth, and his generosity. There were those who counseled him, giving the best advice another could, spending many, many hours and days at a time pondering questions of state and enabling the king to prosper in his kingdom. There were those who went out to collect taxes, so that the king’s coffers might be full. Sometimes they might take a bit too much, but after all, it was for the king, whom they loved and whom they wished to serve. And so it went, the many servants of the king excelling and loving the king or begrudging every minute of hard labor because to be a king seems so much better than to be a servant. The least of all in the kingdom was one who had a deformity and was unable to walk without great difficulty. Her back was hunched, and one eye looked east while the other looked west. All reviled her, including the king. She waited at the gates of the great city, which housed the palace, and begged. And she blessed all who went by, those who gave money and those who did not.

Then Hatonn said as you seek, you present a glorious feast for our eyes and hearts, and we wish to take this opportunity to encourage you, knowing how many times you feel that you have failed, yet knowing the determination to seek once more, always and ever, that which is Love, so the nature of Love has been approached in many ways within your philosophers’ works, your religions, and your books, and it has been analyzed by psychologists and scientists, yet we say to you that Love is not understood, but we say this to you knowing that you know this well, for you seek to learn the lessons of Love which are elusive, but we would offer you a short tale that may illustrate one way of looking at the manifestation of the original Thought of the Creator, a manifestation that is available to all who seek with no exceptions, for it is within you, and it is an over-the-counter commodity, its simplicity so staggering that the mind can hardly deal with the true nature of the manifestation of Love. Hatonn continued by saying once upon a time there was a king, but he was not a great king or a cruel king; he was a mediocre king, and there were many about him, and there was the queen who gave feasts and parties, so that her king could make a toast proud of his house, his wealth, and his generosity, so there were those who counseled him, giving the best advice they could, spending many hours and days pondering questions of state and enabling the king to prosper in his kingdom, and there were those who went out to collect taxes, so that the king’s coffers might be full, but sometimes they might take too much, but it was for the king, whom they loved and whom they wished to serve, so it went, the many servants of the king excelling and loving the king or begrudging every minute of hard labor because to be a king seems so much better than to be a servant, yet the least of all in the kingdom was one who had a deformity and was unable to walk without difficulty since her back was hunched, and one eye looked east while the other looked west, and all reviled her, including the king, but she waited at the gates of the great city, which housed the palace, and begged, and she blessed all who went by, those who gave money and those who did not. On January 6, 1991, Q’uo described the nature of Love:

When the experience of the one infinite Creator has been collected, reaped, and gathered, blessed, thanked, and honored, then a portion of the self is aware, in a way that it cannot express in words, of the nature of Love, of the Creator, and of the self. Then, this immediate, ineffable experience, which is not learning, but the result of learning, may be broken, opened, as infinite as it is, and offered as Love within the illusion, to the illusion itself, to those one meets within the illusion, and to the self.

What the paths are for is to deliver the relativistic self over to the worshipful and open and faithful heart. When that state has been achieved, even momentarily, by the seeking entity, the experience of unity with the infinite Creator is had, and stored, and remembered. It is at that point that all paths become one, just as all manifestations of Christed consciousness tell different stories, but in their essence are all one.

Hatonn continued by sayingThis situation is a description of different ways you look at Love. It is assumed that there is an object of Love, in our story, the king. Some take the object of Love and give the best of their hearts, some the best of their minds, some the gifts of their greed, some as little as they can. But the one who truly Loves gives Love with no object. We are aware that your minds ask you, “How can I acquire this high-sounding principle? I seek to Love and to serve many entities but truly a few special ones. They are the object of Love, and I wish to know how to seek to serve with heart, with mind, with gifts, with what I can.” Love is more simple than that, my friends. To Love, to serve, involves moving with the heartbeat and being careless of the object. The heart does not always know how to serve, nor does the mind, nor can any gift be predictably correct to reinforce Love and to manifest its brightness and its joy. The heartbeat that pulses within each for each, from each and to each, is one original Thought. This Thought lives and has Its being in you and each of you and in all that is.

Then Hatonn said some take the object of Love and give the best of their hearts, some the best of their minds, some the gifts of their greed, some as little as they can, but the one who truly Loves gives Love with no object, and to Love and to serve involves moving with the heartbeat and being careless of the object, for the heart does not always know how to serve, nor does the mind, nor can any gift be predictably correct to reinforce Love and to manifest its brightness and its joy, so the heartbeat that pulses within each for each, from each to each, is the one original Thought that lives and has Its being in you, and each of you, and in all that is, so as the quiet of evening settles about you, and you feel the Love within this group, within this domicile, we seemingly leave you, although you know that we never can be apart from you, for if we are all one, and if the universe is the Creator: “How could we ever truly be apart? How could any people of any relationship ever be apart?” Then Hatonn said Love that which is, whether blessed or cursed by those images of yourself who pass you, so we encourage you to Love, for the activity of Loving is the sharing of the Creator with the Creator. On July 15, 1984, Hatonn described the value of how to Love and to serve:

When the freedom that you seek is the freedom to Love and to serve, you stand on firm ground—not safe ground, my friends, for to Love is not easy; to serve is most difficult; to communicate is treacherous; to share deeply of yourself is painful, and yet, Love abides and draws you to it, for you are that which Loves and that which is Love. You are both sides of the magnet which is the creation. The great attractive force is the same force that created you, and that force is Love.

Do you wish to be free? Then prepare yourself for a bumpy ride through life but a joyous one, for when you give and count not the cost, you purchase that which has no price. It is written in your holy works: “You who sow in tears shall reap in joy.” May your tears be blessed; may your joy be great; and may your seeking be filled with the Love and the Light which are the manifestations of the one infinite Creator which speaks through us to you and from you to us, echoing and re-echoing over and over the great rhythms of thanksgiving.

We leave you in this Love and the Light which is its manifestation. I am known to you as Hatonn. We ask, as always, that you be aware of our foolishness and seek not either to convince yourself or to convince others of anything which we may say. Allow those things which seem inspirational or helpful to you to sink deep within for there are underground rivers within you which are fed by inspiration. Allow those things which are not helpful to fall away quickly with no second thoughts. Know that we Love you and that we thank you for your Love for each other and for us and for the truth which is the Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We are privileged once again to be asked to join your group in our attempt to serve you by attempting to answer those queries which are upon your minds as you seek truth. We are honored to follow those of Hatonn and feel that if we can achieve half the inspiration that our brothers and sisters of Hatonn have achieved that we shall, indeed, have added some measure of inspiration to your journeys. May we begin with the first query at this time?

S: Yes, Latwii, I have a question for you which you may feel free to answer in a general manner. I was wondering about the origin of the children who are being born to those who are wanderers at this time. Could you tell me anything about that?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. This query is one which is not easily answered, for there are a great number of sources of these children, for it is the nature of the entity that you call a wanderer to attempt to be of service to others. This attempt may take any form. When children are a portion of this attempt, again there are many ways in which a so-called wanderer may serve. It may be that the child has a special need which the wanderer shall by nature be more able to provide, and therefore an agreement shall be made, and the child shall find shelter and nurture within the Love and being of the wanderer. One may suppose that such an entity as you have mentioned would have the child which would be of a special vibrational nature, perhaps one readying itself for graduation or perhaps one having been graduated and preparing itself to become the new population of your planet or perhaps even another of what you have called wanderer.

And this is, of course, possible that any or all of these sources may be drawn to such an entity as you have described. But we may also suggest that services are required by a great variety of entities at this time, entities which may need to feel and experience in the incarnation great difficulties in order that difficulties may find balance, and Love may become the manifestation of difficulty. It may be that an entity would wish such a parent if the entity were one which had frequently lost track of its incarnational course in that which you have called its past, and would wish to join one or two who may be able to provide a more firm compass bearings, shall we say, through which the incarnation might find its full expression. As you see, there are, indeed, a number of sources from which those called wanderers may find entities coming into its sphere of influence from. There are, of course, others as well. We have spoken to the general run or way of things, shall we say.

S asked: “I was wondering about the origin of the children who are being born to those who are wanderers at this time. Could you tell me anything about that?” Latwii replied there are a number of sources of these children, for it is the nature of the wanderer to attempt to be of service to others, and this attempt may take any form, so when children are a portion of this attempt, there are many ways in which a wanderer may serve, for it may be that the child has a special need which the wanderer shall be more able to provide, and an agreement shall be made, and the child shall find shelter and nurture within the Love and being of the wanderer, yet one may suppose that such an entity as you have mentioned would have the child which would be of a special vibrational nature, perhaps one readying itself for graduation or perhaps one having been graduated and preparing itself to become the new population of your planet or perhaps even another of what you have called wanderer. Then Latwii said it is possible that any or all of these sources may be drawn to such an entity as you have described, but we suggest that services are required by a variety of entities at this time, entities which may need to feel and experience difficulties in the incarnation in order that difficulties may find balance, and Love may become the manifestation of difficulty, for it may be that an entity would wish such a parent if the entity were one which had frequently lost track of its incarnational course in its past, and it would wish to join one or two who may be able to provide firm compass bearings through which the incarnation might find its full expression, and as you see, there are a number of sources from which wanderers may find entities coming into their sphere of influence, and there are others as well, so we have spoken to the general way of things. On August 7, 2012, Q’uo spoke of the value of experiencing difficulties:

There may be many, many times when the chinks in your armor of Light are intensified by the natural resistance of what this instrument calls the “loyal opposition.” And you may experience difficulties and dark nights. Yet, my friends, is not each dawn a new day? It is indeed. As you awaken on each new day, know that it is a new universe, a new world, and a completely new beginning. Nothing is ever old to those who are awake to Love. Everything is new now.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Well, I was wondering if I could pin you down enough to say which group that you have previously spoken of would comprise the larger percentage?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Let us see, as we survey the so-called demographic statistics. We find that the greatest source of the new entities which you call children who are incarnating in those households in which there is an entity which you have called the wanderer is that entity which is nearing the graduation and has a certain kind of lesson or balance that is needed in order that the graduation might be achieved.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: That research was wonderful. Still along the same lines somewhat, a thought occurred to me that parents are generally loving and very giving towards their children, while children, at a young age especially, tend to be somewhat selfish and self-centered and really do a lot of absorbing because they really need that at that particular time, but I was wondering if it ever happens that a negative entity would choose to be born into a household where there would be positive parents, because it would have such a great potential of absorbing so much Love or would … is that the kind of situation where it’s kind of an agreement that’s made beforehand, so it would be likely to be agreed upon beforehand, I would think? Does that make any sense at all?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. We find the thread of logic in what you say, and can suggest that such a situation is most unlikely, for the entity which you have described as being of a negative polarity is of a nature which would not find the nurturing within such a household as you have described as being that which was helpful to …

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(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii and am with this instrument once again. It would seem that the opportunity to absorb Love which is freely given would be the ideal situation for a negative entity. Yet the negatively-oriented entity would find the harmony and freely given Love to be somewhat repugnant to its nature, wishing instead to test its desire for separation and control upon those whose desire was of a similar nature, thereby being a test of, shall we say, so-called equals in which the strength of separation could be gained. Therefore, the situation in which a negatively-oriented entity would find most desirable for its incarnation would be one in which the polarity of the parents would be either negative or neutral, and disharmony would be possible.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: No, I think you’ve worked on my logic very well. Thank you, Latwii.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister, as always. May we attempt another query?

Carla: Well, just following that up. If you had extraordinarily positive parents, wouldn’t the entity that wanted to learn one more lesson and therefore—and also you mentioned, had lost track of its incarnational course many times—and was, therefore, trying for one last shot before graduation, wouldn’t such an entity that had a bunch of rough edges seem to such positive entities to be negative, even though it was just kinda blah compared to really rotten kids, just because of the sensitivity of the parents?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. It may be that such an entity would be perceived by its parents, as you call them, to be of such a nature as you have mentioned. It may be that such an entity would be perceived in a variety of ways depending upon the sensitivities of those called parents. We believe this is the gist of your query.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla: Just a point that I’m curious about. What would you call parents?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We would call those which you call parents, more according to the sound vibration, teacher.

May we answer you further?

Carla: No. No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister, as always. It is a pleasure to hear your voice. May we attempt another query at this time?

S: Well, yes, along the same lines. If these children have come here because there is something that they need to do in order to graduate, are the parents, maybe by pre-incarnative choice or otherwise, partially responsible for the children becoming aware of this, or would you see the parents’ main job is to Love these children and to … I’m sorry, I’m not making a lot of sense. What I’m trying to say is are these children mainly on their own, I mean, are they pretty much responsible for their own ability or inability to graduate?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We may suggest that the answer to this query is both yes and no. We shall attempt to explain. It is true that each entity is, indeed, in charge of its own lessons and pace of learning them. But it is also true that an entity wishing to learn ballet is unlikely to engage in a course in which football is taught. Thus, it is that entities will before the incarnation determine the general guidelines, shall we say, or parameters within which the lessons and services shall be learned and provided. When an entity has found, shall we say, a match between its needs and the needs of another, then an agreement can be made, and free will can be observed in full sway, for each entity shall find the greater opportunity for its needed catalyst to be provided during the incarnation with entities of a like mind, shall we say, rather than if agreements were to be attempted between entities whose general guidelines were quite dissimilar.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Well, yes. Then it’s possible that one reason that my children chose me to be a mother was so that they would be exposed to my type of religion rather than being born into a Catholic house. Is that kind of what you’re saying?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. This is the gist of our response. It would be perhaps the choice of entities such as your children to enter into a household such as your own which is able to provide a somewhat broader perspective upon that which you have called religion or philosophy than to have joined a household where the perspective was of a more restricted nature, and the truth was seen to be of a narrower nature.

May we attempt further response, my sister?

S: No, thank you, Latwii. Somehow, you’ve made it a little easier to be a parent this evening. Thank you.

I am Latwii and thank you, my sister. We look forward to the next PTA meeting. May we attempt another refreshing answer?

Carla: I just have one follow-up to that whole thing, and that is that when coincidence control has heavily managed the planning of one’s family instead of one’s own logic, can that same coincidence control be trusted when one thing changes, and that is that the person becomes aware that there is the potential for one more soul out there, or do things change so that the mother and father need to then make a conscious decision instead of letting coincidence control and pre-incarnative agreements rule the day?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We might suggest that that quality that you have called coincidence control is a much more personal quality than you might have imagined, for it is the case before incarnation that a most general guideline is laid out for the incarnation by the entity, its, shall we say, guides and its higher self. And during the incarnation there are, shall we say, alternate possibilities that present themselves when another possibility has been chosen or perhaps has not been chosen, so that there is, during the incarnation, a constant interplay of possibilities which swing into action and appear as the coincidence when the time is right. It may be that a certain lesson can be learned in many ways, and that many ways are chosen as possibilities so that should the first, shall we say, bus be missed, there shall be another soon with the same destination.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: In other words, [inaudible]? No, that’s fine. Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we again thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: Well, if nobody’s going to jump right in there, I had a fascinating thing happen to me. In the middle of what seems like a sad thing—my grandmother is very ill with a stroke which just happened this week, and I was sitting with her and she saw things. She saw many, many angels that were flying about the room. She saw something around, just above my head and around it as she described as snowflakes and rectangles that were lit up like neon or something like a movie marquee flashing. She saw something that was of an indigo-blue-green mixed color right around my forehead. She saw lace that was whirling around my neck, and I asked what color it was and she said red. And she saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, dark hair, dark eyes that was standing right beside me.

I was very interested in this and wondered if she was the victim of extremely poor eyesight, hallucinating, or seeing those things on other planes that we call chakras and the blocking of chakras which I would interpret the red around the throat to be and perhaps entities that are with me for some reason and with her for obvious reasons, the angels I mean.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister and am aware that it is a query that moves into the concept of the infinity of the universe. Therefore, we find our ability to speak coherently upon the various points of your query somewhat limited by both words and sensibility. We shall attempt general commentary upon those qualities of your query which we feel competent to investigate.

It is the casewith entities such as your grandmother who are preparing to leave your plane of existence that they shall find, as the old body and senses are beginning to be shed, that they do not lose as much as they gain. The eyes which once looked upon a world of three dimensions now see that world not only in a different Light but see that which you might call another world as well as they begin their transition from one to the other. Those colors and shapes which were noted about your being may be seen as, shall we say—we give this instrument the picture of a Baskin Robbins and quite confuse him. But you are, indeed, like such an establishment which has many flavors or qualities of being, and during one portion of time or month you may have a variety of them on sale, shall we say. There may be various qualities within your being or nature which at one time are evident to those with eyes to see, and which sparkle in brilliance as their nature is expressed by you. At another time you may find other qualities taking precedence over the ones which had sway at a previous time.

The beings which have been noted by this entity may be likened unto the travelers which join the pilgrim for a portion of its journey. Just as you move through your third-dimensional illusion and gather about you certain friends and acquaintances and spend time with them on occasions, just so, there are those entities of other realms, shall we say, who travel with you in much the same fashion. Though unseen and to most unapparent in any regard, yet do they journey with the seeker and add their portion of being to the seeker’s journey. These entities may range from that which is commonly known as the guide or angelic presence to astral souls who have recently been within your third density in a manifested incarnation and who may now find a helpful experience in their own journey to be that of joining you for a portion of yours, and who add their own nature of helpfulness to your journey in a manner which is unseen and quite likely not apparent in any way except to those with certain sensitivities such as your grandmother is now developing as a result of the transition which she is accomplishing.

S asked: “I was very interested in this and wondered if she was the victim of extremely poor eyesight, hallucinating, or seeing those things on other planes that we call chakras and the blocking of chakras which I would interpret the red around the throat to be and perhaps entities that are with me for some reason and with her for obvious reasons, the angels I mean.” Latwii said that it is the case with entities such as your grandmother, who are preparing to leave your plane of existence, that they shall find that they do not lose as much as they gain, and the eyes which once looked upon a world of three dimensions now see that world not only in a different Light but see another world as well as they begin their transition from one to the other, so those colors and shapes which were noted about your being may be seen as many qualities of being, and during one portion of time you may have a variety of them, and there may be various qualities within your being which are evident to those with eyes to see and which sparkle in brilliance as their nature is expressed by you, but at another time you may find other qualities taking precedence over the ones which had sway at a previous time. Now Latwii said the beings which have been noted by this entity may be likened unto the travelers which join the pilgrim for a portion of its journey, and just as you move through your third-dimensional illusion and gather about you friends and spend time with them, so there are entities of other realms who travel with you in the same fashion, but unseen and to most unapparent in any regard, yet do they journey with the seeker and add their portion of being to the seeker’s journey, for these entities may range from that which is the guide, or angelic presence, to astral souls who have recently been within your third density in a manifested incarnation, and who may now find an helpful experience in their own journey to be that of joining you for a portion of yours and who add their own nature of helpfulness to your journey in a manner which is unseen and not apparent in any way except to those with certain sensitivities such as your grandmother is now developing as a result of the transition which she is accomplishing. On March 31, 1991, Q’uo spoke of the nature of an angelic presence:

First of all, let us remove the relatively shallow purpose of the number three. There are three points to a triangle. There were three wise men. Three women came to the tomb on Easter morning. The Sanctus is sung three times. And in the story of Christianity that has devolved into a body of dogma the one infinite Creator is divided into three things: the Creator, the savior and the accompaniment or angelic presence that guides each entity in everyday life. The number three is a way of expressing all that there is, not in fullness but by emblematic intentions. Three is the number that expresses an entire class or genre of a particular quality or action, yet universalizes the particular.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Just one question, and I thank you for that answer. Fascinating. When I was thirty-two I almost decided to conceive a child. I came very close to deciding to do that. It would have involved a great deal of personal upheaval, leaving, and so forth. However, I really wanted to have a child, impractical as it was. I decided against it because I really couldn’t leave Don, and I couldn’t stick him with a kid that wasn’t his, so I didn’t do it. And I was wondering, because the age was right, if that spirit is the child that was waiting to be born to me and has now decided to stay with me on an astral plane?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We find in this case that our ability to speak is somewhat limited due to our desire to maintain the free will of your current incarnation.

Carla: Let me put it another way. Does it ever happen?

I am Latwii, and we may respond in the affirmative that such a situation is possible and does occur from time to time, the entity not having been born into the incarnation choosing to remain with the incarnated potential parent in a, as you have mentioned, astral form so that experience may yet be shared with this entity, yet shared in a manner quite unlike the third-dimensional experience which each of you now find yourselves within. It may be that such an entity could do what you call a double time or experience by not only remaining in an astral form with the first, shall we say, choice of parents but also incarnating with another set of parents and having a dual experience, though the astral experience would not be immediately available to the incarnated portion of the entity’s self.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: If one were to have an astral child like that, how would one serve the child?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Well, we might suggest that the food bill would not be increased, but there would, indeed, be that which is called the spiritual food which would be made available to this entity in the form of the world of experience available in thought. The fruit of the mind, then, would be the food upon which such an astral entity would find nourishment, and, indeed, the nourishment there could be of a quite substantial nature, for not all thought finds its way into manifestation and therefore does not become available to those third-dimensional children, whereas it would be much more available to an astral child, shall we say.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla: Does the astral incarnation end when the parent’s physical incarnation ends?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. This is variable according to the choices and agreements which have been made between the entities involved. It is not, shall we say, set such as your third-dimensional incarnation which may have more, shall we say, concrete boundaries to the agreement.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: That’s really a bad pun. No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister, and apologize for bad puns, but at this point in this instrument’s development we are happy with any pun that we can get through.

May we attempt another query at this time?

J: I’d like to ask a question, Latwii, and it’s good to hear your puns. About my dog’s ear. I think it’s improving, but I’m not sure. I think it’s what I want to see. Can you give me any new information on it?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother, and we are quite pleased to hear your voice once again. We can suggest in this particular situation that the healing which is desired for the ear of your dog is a healing which will take a good deal more time, for in the experience of providing the healing for this entity, this entity is gaining more than healing. There is the Love and the affection which is naturally shown to one which has this kind of, shall we say, disease or disablement. Therefore, this entity gains a great deal of the investment of your Love and caring as you attempt to complete its healing.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we find that once again we have exhausted those queries which each of you have so generously brought with you this evening. We thank you, as always, for the honor of sharing our humble opinions with you. These opinions are our foolish attempt at service, and we remind each to take that which has value and leave that which has none. We hope that we have provided you with some aid in your seeking, and we shall be most happy to join you at any time during your meditations that you might wish our presence. We also now seem to leave you, yet shall remain with you in that Love and Light of the one infinite Creator. We are those of Latwii. We are your own selves journeying with you through the One to the One in joy, in peace, and in power. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “The entire message of this book is based on the principle that there is an inner Grace which does not operate through, or by, physical might or mental powers. This Grace, of which most people are unaware, operates only when faith in anything and everything has been relinquished, even including faith in a God from whom the world has been waiting since the beginning of time.

There have been many in the history of the world who have known this secret, and each of these of whom we have knowledge has imparted it to a group of people who became their disciples or followers. In every instance, however, after one or two generations, the teaching was adulterated, and its heart and soul disappeared from the face of the Earth, only to be revealed to someone again at a later age, after which the same process was repeated.

In the face of this, it is natural to ask whether it is worthwhile to attempt to teach it again. It is worthwhile to travel thousands of miles year in and year out to carry such a message to the world, if only a few people receive and demonstrate it, and then let it pass from the Earth again? And my answer to that is that the circumstances are different today.

In all past generations, the world could look forward to the discovery of an increasingly greater power, and in each generation some greater power was discovered, but today with atomic power an actuality the world is faced with the ultimate of power. Who can envision anything beyond nuclear power? Is there anything beyond this, or has the world now reached the end of its search for power?

The truth in The Thunder of Silence can be found in the New Testament. Readers of this book, however, cannot expect that the mere reading of it will enable them to live by its revealed principles. Those who feel no response to the unfoldment presented here will, of course, be more than satisfied with one reading, but those who feel a thrill of recognition in their first reading should make this book their constant companion day and night, Sundays and holidays until their materialistic state of consciousness begins to yield and surrenders itself as the transcendental Consciousness takes over the mind, body, and everyday experience of their lives.

More than thirty years of experience have demonstrated beyond doubt that this change of consciousness can take place in any person who continues to abide in this message. Such a change of consciousness must take place within the reader before they will find it possible to live by the I-say-unto-you of the Sermon on the Mount.

The purpose of this book is to reveal transcendental Consciousness and, thereby, develop individual consciousness to that place where one can truthfully say, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” This purpose can be achieved only by dwelling—living, moving, and having one’s being—and by continuously abiding in the Word.”

Later this morning I went outside and hand weeded the Peony Garden beside the fishpond and half of the Solomon Seal Garden at the back of the garage.

This afternoon I was once again honored to co-host the European Law of One Telegram Group meeting. Today I read Session #66 of the Law of One to the group, and then I gave my opinion in answering questions such as: “When did you perform the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram during the Ra contact?” “Do you ever get sick?” “When will Living The Law of One 102: The Outer Work be available?” and “How do you perform the Exercise of Fire?” This was the best session that I have had with the European Law of One Telegram Group!

Later this afternoon I made an errand run to stop at Kroger’s to buy some food for myself.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 25

Love As Motivation

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the fullness of the consciousness which is divine Love.

That consciousness is the ground of being of all who may hear our voice. That single word, Love, created all that there is. The image of Love draws each seeker on; with visage veiled and beguiling; with footsteps infinitely retreating before the advancing soul.

For that consciousness which is pure, and creative, and all powerful is that consciousness which is its own source; that Light which shines through the ages; that factory of all that there is, and that home to which all that there is shall return.

Do not sentimentalize the Love of Jesus the Christ, for He left His Spirit with you not only to comfort you but to excite and motivate each soul to act in that same consciousness and live in that same Light and energy.

Know that your feet rest upon Love, the ground of your being and that that creative energy is the active principle. The passive principle is peace.

In that peace we leave you, both now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session are from August 19, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I greet you in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. What a blessing it is to blend our energies and lives with yours as we flow along the never-ending river of Love and Light. This evening we would speak with you about that which one might call a kind of reality that is hard to discover within the heavy chemical illusion within which you live, think, and act. It has been sometimes called the Kingdom of Heaven. The most apparent condition of this reality which each seeks is more closely aligned with what you would call truth than is your experience—day by day is its harmony.

As we speak to you now, there are millions of life forms about you that are vibrating in harmony with you that have changed slightly in their pitch and tone and entendre in order to be in harmony with your vibrations. The very particles of air, furnished as they are with Light which is their chief characteristic, and the energy of Love which moves that Light scintillates in a dazzling display of harmony which ascends and ascends until all is white and Light, and there is no more for the eye to see. This is occurring about you at this moment. We are aware that you would like to become familiar with this experience and to leave behind experiences of disharmony, and banality, and folly with which the incarnation you now experience has provided you. The experiences of these energies have been had, and they are being had, and they will be had by many in these, shall we use the phrase, latter days, due to ingestion of chemicals which alter the rhythms of the mind so that the mind may become aware of that which is more real by one step than your illusion.

In this session Hatonn wanted to speak about the nature of reality. They began by saying we would speak with you about that which is a kind of reality that is hard to discover within the heavy chemical illusion within which you live, think, and act, and it is called the Kingdom of Heaven, so the nature of this reality which each seeks is aligned with the truth that is your experience which is its harmony. Hatonn went on to say as we speak to you there are millions of life forms about you that are vibrating in harmony with you that have changed in their pitch and tone in order to be in harmony with your vibrations, and the particles of air, furnished as they are with Light which is their chief characteristic, and the energy of Love which moves that Light shines in a dazzling display of harmony, which ascends until all is white Light, and there is no more for the eye to see, for this is occurring about you at this moment, so we are aware that you would like to become familiar with this experience and to leave behind experiences of disharmony and folly with which the incarnation you now experience has provided you, yet the experiences of these are being had, and they will be had by many in these latter days, due to ingestion of chemicals which alter the rhythms of the mind, so it may become aware of that which is more real by one step than your illusion. In Session 6.1, Ra spoke of the experience that can come from the ingestion of chemicals:

There are many upon your plane who have a random hole or gateway in their spirit energy field, sometimes created by the ingestion of chemicals such as, what this instrument would call LSD, who are able, randomly, and without control, to tap into energy sources. They may or may not be entities who wish to serve.

These harmonious vibrations are also an illusion, my friends, so it is simply that it is a denser illusion, far more filled with Light and, therefore, more pleasing. How wondrous it would be if within your physical bodies, awake and alert, you could still perceive the flowers and the trees nodding and rejoicing in rhythm to your footsteps and your thoughts, feelings, the musical interactions of air, and earth, and water, and sunshine, as these elements adjust themselves to all that is about them and to the one underlying vibration which is the original Logos and from which all harmony stems.

The Kingdom of Heaven is one of harmony. It is fourth density. It is remembered by many. Many yearn for it as they would a home. Beyond harmony is unity, the white Light of which we spoke, being far more naturally the experience of one whose true home is within fifth density, and many there are who yearn to abide in that comforting presence always and who lack the awareness in the waking state. We have spoken to you many times of meditation, and, therefore, you know that we shall say that these experiences are within you to remember, not to gain, and that meditation is like the key that opens the door. It is a reaching out and turning of the latch. Regardless of how well one meditates, one is still reaching, and, therefore, these experiences may begin to come. Very often they begin to come in a distorted manner, and not in the waking state, as much as in the hypnogogic or sleeping state, either in dreams or in half-waking visions. They may be personified by a teacher who is attempting to help you gain what you seek or by a certain symbol which haunts you. Pursue these distortions with the knowledge that they are the road within your own self which will guide you past the blocks that you have set up against yourself to keep you from remembering.

Hatonn went on to say these harmonious vibrations are also an illusion, so it is that it is a denser illusion, far more filled with Light and more pleasing, and how wondrous it would be if within your physical bodies you could perceive the flowers and the trees nodding and rejoicing in rhythm to your footsteps and your thoughts, feelings, and the musical interactions of air, earth, water, and sunshine, as these elements adjust themselves to all that is about them and to the one underlying vibration which is the original Logos and from which all harmony stems. Hatonn went on to say beyond harmony is unity, the white Light being naturally the experience of one whose true home is within fifth density, and many there are who yearn to abide in that comforting presence and who lack the awareness in the waking state, so we have spoken to you of meditation, for  you know that we say that these experiences are within you to remember, and that meditation is the key that opens the door, for it is a reaching out and turning of the latch, but regardless of how well one meditates, one is still reaching, and these experiences may begin to come in a distorted manner in the sleeping state, either in dreams or in half-waking visions, and they may be personified by a teacher who is attempting to help you gain what you seek or by a certain symbol which haunts you, so pursue these distortions with the knowledge that they are the road within yourself which will guide you past the blocks that you have set up against yourself to keep you from remembering. On April 9, 1989, Q’uo spoke of the sleeping state and dreams as a way of gaining more information about ourselves:

We must suggest that one look within one’s own being within the state of meditation or of prayer, and for those who are accomplished at working with their dreams within the sleeping state there might be sought information in these areas that is not readily accessible to the conscious mind. The part which desires with great intensity to know the nature of its own being and the purpose of its being shall, with dogged persistence, continue to seek within the meditative or prayerful state this information which the subconscious mind contains in full and which it will release in symbolic form to the conscious mind in order that the conscious mind might be informed in the manner by which it has sought information.

The sleeping experience is not understood among your people. We find in Carla’s memory a recently read article on the subject of sleep. In the sense in which we are discussing sleep, the greater percentage of those upon your sphere sleep eight hours a day, as this instrument would say, for they do not use the time within sleep to learn, to seek, and to experience harmony, unity and Love. This process may begin within sleep, and one may begin seeking because the subconscious and sleeping self has pushed through in dreams those things which cause an entity to begin to question the apparent reality within which there are so many shadows and so many unexplained and unresolved discrepancies.

It may happen the opposite way. There are those whose minds are stronger than their intuition, and for these the intellect first becomes curious. For these entities the journey towards total commitment to seeking may be longer, as the intellect is devious by nature and tends to hold a percentage of what you call judgment back. Within the dreaming state, and within the intuitional state while awake, there is no holding back of the judgment, but only the experience. Judgment is done after the fact, not during, thus the experience is undiluted. We say to you, my friends, you dwell in a universe so beautiful, so harmonious, so unified, so totally full of Love, that words are never enough to begin to acquaint you with the character of that which you may call reality. You experience one reality which by its very nature has the potential of transcending space and time. That is the sexual orgasm. If you could imagine this experience as a steady state, you would begin to understand the character and the nature of reality. There is a great hunger to experience this in each seeker, and we encourage this hunger, and we urge you onward. Once you have experienced one moment of this reality, you will not subjectively doubt the validity of your seeking.

Hatonn continued by saying the sleeping experience is not understood among your people, so we find in Carla’s memory a recently read article on the subject of sleep, and in the sense in which we are discussing sleep, the greater percentage of those upon your sphere sleep eight hours a day, for they do not use the time within sleep to learn and to experience harmony, unity, and Love, and this process may begin within sleep, for one may begin seeking because the subconscious and sleeping self has pushed through in dreams those things which cause an entity to begin to question the apparent reality within which there are many shadows and many unresolved discrepancies. Now Hatonn said it may happen the opposite way because there are those whose minds are stronger than their intuition, and for these the intellect first becomes curious, for these entities the journey towards total commitment to seeking may be longer, as the intellect is devious by nature and tends to hold a percentage of judgment back, so within the dreaming state, and within the intuitional state while awake, there is no holding back of the judgment but only the experience, yet judgment is done after the fact, thus the experience is undiluted, for we say that you dwell in a universe so beautiful, so unified, so full of Love, that words are never enough to begin to acquaint you with the nature of reality, and you experience one reality which has the potential of transcending space and time, so that is the sexual orgasm, but if you could imagine this experience as a steady state, you would begin to understand the nature of reality, for there is a hunger to experience this in each seeker, and we encourage this hunger, and we urge you onward, and once you have experienced one moment of this reality, you will not doubt the validity of your seeking. On January 29, 1989, Latwii spoke of the nature of the sexual orgasm:

The universe, as far as we know, exists at a steady level of joy. You know it when you experience that which you call the sexual orgasm. That is the steady state of reality. That is the intensity which created the physical vehicle in which you now express. That is the beginning of one way of understanding the Creator.

We take you, therefore, to the vast meadows of fragrant existence that lie before you in time and space. We ask you to drop those things which you have in your hands: all the worries, the concerns, the qualifications, the distinctions, and the limitations which you think you have and by which you think you should abide. The strength of the universe is one. Its fragrance, its beauty; its joys are one. The experience of this one original Thought will continue to be available, and we urge you to pursue it in meditation, in vision, and by dedication of the self in whatever state and in whatever experience within your illusion, to the seeking of reality, if we may use that term, for truly we speak relatively. We know a bit more than you as we have experienced more, but for us to talk of reality would be foolish, for we have not seen the end and the beginning nor have our teachers. The mystery of the universe remains hidden in the Creator and therefore, hidden in all of us.

Rejoice, then, that you have within you that which you seek. Know that the answers are simple, too simple for the mind. Know, too, that you will often be hard put within your illusion to manifest any awareness of those things which you seek, of those ideals to which you have dedicated yourself. It is the nature of your illusion to block, and block, and block again every pathway so that you may express Love in the removal of blockage. It is the intention of your higher self that the pride within you be humbled, that the humility within you be made proud, that the plain may be made complex and the complex plain. In other words, my friends, your higher self wishes you learn the lessons of Love and these lessons are not simple. They are as complex and, if you will excuse the misuse of words, three dimensional as a chair or yourself, and all of these things you shall not learn by the mind. You may put all that you wish into your mind, you may think, and contemplate, and guess, and worry, and fret, and yet you shall not feel harmony unless it is by coincidence alone, for the mind is a servant that is too often the master by default. What do you have, my friends, that may seek, that you may trust more than your mind? What shall be the master of your mind? As you seek reality, we ask you to ponder this question, for in the seeker the mind is grossly misused very often, and the far-seeing vision within is cut off, downplayed and mistrusted.

Now Hatonn said we take you to the meadows of fragrant existence that lie before you in time and space, and we ask you to drop those things which you have in your hands: all the worries and the limitations which you think you have and by which you think you should abide, for the strength of the universe is one, so the experience of this one original Thought will continue to be available, and we urge you to pursue it in meditation and by dedication of the self in whatever state and in whatever experience within your illusion, to the seeking of reality, for we speak relatively, for we know a bit more than you as we have experienced more, but for us to talk of reality would be foolish, for we have not seen the end and the beginning nor have our teachers, yet the mystery of the universe remains hidden in the Creator and hidden in all of us. Hatonn went on to say rejoice that you have within you that which you seek, and know that the answers are too simple for the mind, and know that you will be hard put within your illusion to manifest any awareness of those things which you seek, for it is the nature of your illusion to block every pathway so that you may express Love in the removal of blockage, so it is the intention of your higher self that the pride within you be humbled, that the humility within you be made proud, that the plain may be made complex and the complex plain, for in other words your higher self wishes you to learn the lessons of Love, and these lessons are not simple because they are as complex and three dimensional as a chair, and all of these things you shall not learn by the mind, but you may put all that you wish into your mind, and you may contemplate, yet you shall not feel harmony unless it is by coincidence alone, for the mind is a servant that is too often the master by default, so: “What do you have, my friends, that may seek, that you may trust more than your mind? What shall be the master of your mind?” Now Hatonn said as you seek reality, we ask you to ponder this question, for in the seeker the mind is often misused, and the far-seeing vision within is cut off and mistrusted. On October 22, 1995, Q’uo described the nature of the far-seeing vision:

There are, however, within each culture, each religion, each philosophy, those far-seeing individuals who are like unto the hero in any journey or story, that can open up new possibilities to the people by their far-seeing vision. Thus, within each grouping is seeded the potential for the expansion of the vision that includes a larger definition of the identity so that the evolutionary process may continue upon a new level of experience and understanding. It is the struggle of each culture and grouping to break free of that which makes them what they are, or what they were, and to become more than that.

When we are with you, my friends, we experience a great deal of joy, and we wish to thank each, for we too cast our burdens down as we speak with you. We too are able to inspire more than we are inspired by ourselves. We too find the saying easier than the doing. We find these experiences in different ways than you, for our experiential continuum is different. We see the harmony, but we are having our own difficulties in seeing the white Light of fusion, and that we seek, refining upon our grasp of the truth in our own incarnational experience. It is greatly helpful for us to share experience with you and to offer service to you. It is very inspiring to us to see those who are making their choice to serve and to Love the one Creator and the Creator in each of us, and we offer you courage and encouragement, for truly that which you seek is awaiting you. You have shut the door upon a glowing and vibrant harmony, upon the infinity of Light, upon the mysteries that lie beyond all knowing. You have hands; you have a will; so reach out, grasp, and open. This is not often a quick process, unless, as we said before, experienced by means of the so-called mind-altering substances, and when experienced in such a way, the results are unpredictable, and it is sometimes too much of a vision for the spirit of that particular entity at that particular time to experience, and the equivalent of a spiritual injury is done so that the aura, as you would call it, is not then able to bear the full Light without much regrouping, rededication, and researching.

Therefore, seek ye what may be called the Kingdom of Heaven. Whether it be for moments at a time or for hours, let it be daily, and then seek to share whatever you can of your journey with whomever there may be who comes before you and asks, “What is there, my friends, that shall master the mind? And how shall you go about strengthening that faculty?” Ponder this well and with joy. We shall be with you, as you know, at any time that you may wish to ask for our presence mentally. Indeed, if you are alone and do not create a stumbling block by calling out for unseen presences, it sometimes helps entities who are seeking to invoke names aloud that are able to undergird and strengthen the meditative carrier wave, shall we say. We have been anxious to use the instrument known as C. However, we find within this instrument’s mind a request to be able to listen this evening, which we respect. We would, however, like to take a few moments to exercise this channel by means of conditioning and also to make our presence likewise known to each. We shall pause.

Hatonn said when we are with you we experience a great deal of joy, and we wish to thank each, for we too cast our burdens down as we speak with you, so we are able to inspire more than we are inspired by ourselves, for we find saying is easier than doing, yet we find these experiences in different ways than you, for our experiential continuum is different, so we see the harmony, but we are having our own difficulties in seeing the white Light of fusion that we seek and refining our grasp of the truth in our incarnational experience, for it is helpful for us to share experience with you and to offer service to you because it is inspiring to us to see those who are making their choice to serve and to Love the one Creator in each of us, and we offer you encouragement, for that which you seek is awaiting you, but you have shut the door upon the infinity of Light and upon the mysteries that lie beyond all knowing, yet you have hands; you have a will; so reach out, grasp, and open, but this is not a quick process unless it is experienced by means of mind-altering substances, and when experienced in such a way, the results are unpredictable, and it is sometimes too much of a vision for the spirit of an entity at that time to experience, and the equivalent of a spiritual injury is done so that the aura is not able to bear the full Light without regrouping and rededication. Hatonn went on to say seek ye the Kingdom of Heaven whether it be for moments at a time or for hours, and then seek to share whatever you can of your journey with whomever there may be who comes before you and asks: “What is there, my friends, that shall master the mind? And how shall you go about strengthening that faculty?” Now Hatonn said ponder this with joy, and we shall be with you at any time that you may wish to ask for our presence, so if you are alone and do not create a stumbling block by calling out for unseen presences, it sometimes helps entities who are seeking to invoke names aloud that are able to undergird and strengthen the meditative carrier wave. On March 23, 1986, Hatonn described the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven:

You shall spend a very large portion of this creation’s time/space and space/time dwelling upon the fruits of the bitter cup you take in faith now, for although there are heavier illusions than this one, this is the heaviest illusion for those beings which have become conscious of the self. This is the illusion in which we choose whom to serve. Therefore, we draw your gaze not only to the Kingdom of Heaven, as you would call it, where all the good is known and the subjective has become the objective, and that which is solitary within your soul has become common and shared among all souls. We ask you to turn to the illusion, for it is important that you spend these few moments of your infinite experience in compassionate scrutiny and the most honest reaction and interaction to and with the bitter cup which you may be asked to drink. We ask you not to flinch from this experience, but insofar as it is possible at any given moment we ask you to gaze without regret at all which seems bitter and difficult, for this has been given you with the greatest Love and Wisdom.

[Pause]

I am Hatonn, and am once again with this instrument. This instrument is somewhat overcome by the conditioning which was made stronger for others. We are adjusting the contact. My friends, many are the times that we speak to you about the dragons and the chimeras of your illusion, of all the difficulties that you face. There are times when it is best to turn one’s back on consideration of the entire spectrum of your incarnational experience and focus instead upon one single thing. You do not exist because you think. You do not exist because of what you have done. You are not a child of the Creator because of who you know, what power you have, what money may be yours, what influence you may peddle.

You do not belong to the One because of how nice you are, how intelligent, how pleasant, or any other quality or character that you may propose. There is no justification for your existence, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be. You are a portion of joy which has no reason for being but itself. You experience this joy in a vastly distorted way in your day-to-day experience but never mistake the quality of your life. You are Love. You are joy. You are One. Past all the stumbling blocks that a human mind can conceive there lies a kingdom whose music is haunting you, and whose beauty is just beyond your fingertips. There is mercy within you, mercy that forgives all that is within the human portion of yourself, mercy that is like a pointer saying, “You need no justification. Come and follow joy.”

Then Hatonn said this instrument is overcome by the conditioning which was made stronger for others, so we are adjusting the contact, and many are the times that we speak to you about all the difficulties that you face, for there are times when it is best to turn one’s back on consideration of the entire spectrum of your incarnational experience and focus upon one single thing, but you do not exist because you think, because of what you have done since you are not a child of the Creator because of who you know, what power you have, or what money may be yours. Hatonn went on to say you do not belong to the One because of how nice you are, how intelligent you are, or any other quality that you may propose, and there is no justification for your existence, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, for you are a portion of joy which has no reason for being but itself, and you experience this joy in a distorted way in your day-to-day experience but never mistake the quality of your life, for you are Love, joy, and you are One, yet past all stumbling blocks that a human mind can conceive there lies a kingdom whose music is haunting you, and whose beauty is beyond your fingertips, but there is mercy within that forgives all that is within the human portion of yourself, mercy that is like a pointer saying, “You need no justification. Come and follow joy.” On November 15, 1990, Laitos spoke of the nature of joy:

The subject of joy is one of which you heard us speak upon many times before, as it is the outgrowth of the life which is lived in a balanced fashion and which has successfully weathered many metaphysical storms, shall we say. It is that natural state of being for the uncreated universe in that portion of yourself that maintains contact with the Creator, that has yet to be moved into action and separation of any kind. Thus, at the foundation of each entity’s being there is this quality which undergirds all which does move and seek within creation. This kind of joy is that which is, shall we say, virgin, pure, and undiluted. It has as its motivating factor, shall we say, the thrill of being, the exaltation that each tiny portion of the creation exudes as a matter of the fact of its existence—the entire creation sings.

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[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

Then turn back into your world, into space and time as you experience it and be the conditional limited entity that you can be,  and be careful of yourself and loving, insofar as you are able, to others. Be yourself, my friends. Be yourself with that which shall not pass away from you. In this we leave you, for that which does not pass is that which you are and that which you wish to experience, the Love and the Light of the One who is all and in all. I am Hatonn. I leave this instrument regretfully, realizing that we have been verbose, and yet it has been such a pleasure to speak with you. Our hearts leap with you as you experience the yearning for truth, for joy, comfort, and for peace. We can now only say to you, you do not seek that which does not exist; that which you seek is within you and is awaiting the reaching. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We are overjoyed to be asked to join your group this evening. Once again it is our privilege and our pleasure to respond to your call. We, as always, hope to impart some bit of assistance in attempting to answer those queries which you have brought with you. May we then, without further delay, ask if we might attempt the first query?

Carla: What was that question we were going to ask?

[Group discussion.]

Carla: We had a question before this meditation that we didn’t have any idea about the answer to, and at one point we were wondering if you could answer the question, but I’m so absentminded I forgot what we were asking. Could it have been about the coincidence of the 1947 beginning of the modern UFO era, and also of the possible peak of the harvesters or the wanderers? Can you comment on that in any way?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. And though this query is not that which you had at first intended to query upon, we can, indeed, comment upon this subject. We find that in the observation of your people and your planet that the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Infinite Creator has from time to time attempted to provide service in answer to the call of your people, and this service has taken various forms. In order to provide a service which has, shall we say, endurance and hope of raising those vibrations which are somewhat of a fluctuating nature between the negative and positive, a great portion of the plan of service to your people has been for various individualized portions of our Confederation to enter into those manifested planes of your third-density experience as third-density beings, those you know of as wanderers. These entities, with the memory of their heritage forgotten for the length of the incarnation in order that their service might be, shall we say, earned and purely given, have come that they might bring in some form those abilities to seek and serve which are their birthright, and this wave, as you speak of the occurrence which followed your so-called second great war, was undertaken at that time because it was at that time that the call of your people was of the proper, shall we say, frequency and strength to enable the great influx of wanderers to incarnate and provide those services which each his sought since to provide.

The calling was affected by that second great war, and was affected in the manner of a great desire sweeping your planet for peace, the second great war having unleashed the destructive powers of separation and control to a great extent upon much of the surface of your planet. Therefore, it was the desire of many of your people in a conscious fashion, as well as in an unconscious fashion, to do whatever could be done to achieve peace and harmony. Therefore, the time and calling, shall we say, were ripe for the response to come in the form of what you have called wanderers.

Carla asked: “I forgot what we were asking. Could it have been about the coincidence of the 1947 beginning of the modern UFO era, and also of the possible peak of the harvesters or the wanderers? Can you comment on that in any way?” Hatonn began by saying we find that in the observation of your people and your planet that the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Infinite Creator has attempted to provide service in answer to the call of your people, and this service has taken various forms, so in order to provide a service which has endurance and hope of raising those vibrations which are of a fluctuating nature between the negative and positive, and a portion of the plan of service to your people has been for various individualized portions of our Confederation to enter into those manifested planes of your third-density experience as wanderers, so these entities have come that they might bring in some form those abilities to seek and serve which are their birthright, and this wave followed your second great war, and it was undertaken at that time because it was at that time that the call of your people was of the proper frequency and strength to enable the great influx of wanderers to incarnate and provide those services which each has sought to provide. Hatonn went on to say the calling was affected by that second great war in the manner of a great desire sweeping your planet for peace, the second great war having unleashed the destructive powers of separation and control to a great extent upon much of the surface of your planet, so it was the desire of many of your people in a conscious fashion, as well as in an unconscious fashion, to do whatever could be done to achieve peace and harmony, for the time and calling were ripe for the response to come in the form of what you have called wanderers. In 12.26, Ra described the nature of wanderers:

Questioner: Thank you. Well, you spoke of wanderers. Who are wanderers? Where do they come from?

I am Ra. Imagine, if you will, the sands of your shores. As countless as the grains of sand are the sources of intelligent infinity.

When a social memory complex has achieved its complete understanding of its desire, it may conclude that its desire is service to others with the distortion towards reaching their hand, figuratively, to any entities who call for aid. These entities, whom you may call the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow, move towards this calling of sorrow. These entities are from all reaches of the infinite creation and are bound together by the desire to serve in this distortion.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Only if it’s possible for you to tell me what the question was that we were going to ask and then answer it.

I am Latwii and am aware of that which you are not, for we have the advantage of Carla’s mind which has the quality of that game which you have recently undertaken, the Trivial Pursuit, and we find in her mind the remembrance of that query having to do with another instrument which has the incarnational vibration of Jane Roberts. It was given as a portion of information that this entity had been visited and, shall we say, overtaken to some degree by an entity of the negative vibration, and it was upon your mind, shall we remind you, as to whether this information might be correct.

We feel that this is a fair statement of the query. We shall now ask if there is some further elaboration upon the query which you wish to make. Thus, we may attempt response to a query which has been asked us, and not respond to that which we have asked for you.

Carla: What you said, could you make a comment, either to verify it or to comment upon it?

[Sound of firecrackers going off nearby.]

I didn’t mean that kind of comment.

[Firecrackers continue for a while longer.]

I am Latwii, and we were waiting for the drum roll but had to settle for a firecracker barrage. We are aware of your query, my sister, and are aware that your concern for such an occurrence is great and sincere. We, however, are not those who specialize in verifying the validity or non-validity of those rumors which may circulate among seekers from time to time. We can state in general that any entity who seeks to be of service to others by means of vocalized channeling, whether of a telepathic or trance nature, is an entity which is undertaking a great responsibility and is somewhat at risk. There is the honor of standing close to Light, but there is also the responsibility of reflecting and radiating that Light as purely as is possible. No negative entity may do anything to another being, but any being may provide an entry into its own being by creating its own negative thoughts which may then be intensified by one of negative polarity.

This is a, shall we say, risk which any instrument assumes either consciously or unconsciously when such a service begins. It is well for each instrument so choosing to serve to develop those means of protecting the self as the service is given. Such means of protection are available on your planet and are found within many, shall we say, esoteric teachings that are available to those who seek to be of service. It is well to investigate, remembering at all times that the praise and thanksgiving and seeing each entity as the one Creator are the greatest protections.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yeah. I just had one more question. I never can predict whether you can answer these or not, but I’ve been feeling very dizzy lately, and I actually fainted once, and I wondered if there was some other than physical cause, or all a part of the dizziness, or whether it was a simple physical complaint?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We find in this instance that we may speak in general, and we note that the dizziness factor which has been a portion of your experience from the new times of your incarnation through your work in trance channeling has reappeared in yet another form or intensity of experience for you. We can suggest that your current situation within this group of working might be examined for those general trends or emotive feelings which then might be symbolized by the dizzying of the perceptive abilities and the momentary loss of control of the physical vehicle.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: I suppose I’ll have to read that. I’ve been looking at it from the standpoint of where I’m blocking in order to create a request for intensification of an already existing dizziness. I haven’t been able to determine whether it’s blue ray, indigo ray, or even green. Could you give some guidelines on that? I certainly have been blocking some communication because I don’t want to discourage Don. I’ve been blocking indigo because I just feel cruddy sometimes when things get strange, and I’ve been blocking green simply because I find myself pulled really quickly towards martyrdom if I reach out to Don too much without protecting myself. So, it could be any of the three. The guidelines, not just on this particular instance but on how you analyze blockages of this nature.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We appreciate the multiple-choice selection of colors. We shall do our best to lend the proper hue to our response. We may speak again in general and suggest that for each entity within your illusion the great lesson from which all lessons spring is the lesson of Love. This lesson has as one of its primary features the ability to accept that which is apparently not acceptable, for is not all the Creator? Is there any portion of the one Creator that is not acceptable? As you move through your illusion and see that which is apparently not acceptable, it is then your great opportunity to take that situation or thought and examine it that you might become it and feel it also to be the one Creator, whole and perfect. Thereby you learn that which you have come to learn, not only to accept but to be that which seems unacceptable and quite alien to the self.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, Latwii, you just took all the fun out of dumping on people. That’s very helpful. Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. We would at some date perhaps share a bit of gossip that we have about various entities, but since you do not know them, we must, for the nonce, refrain. Is there another query which we might attempt to answer?

C: Latwii, would you give comment on the … you see, we’ve been feeling other presences in the house in which we now live. Do you suppose you could comment on what these are—about their nature?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my brother. We find in this instance that the presences which have become apparent to you within your new dwelling are those which been with this dwelling for a significant portion of what you call time. The entities previously inhabiting your new dwelling, by virtue of their nature of expression, had drawn to them entities of a varied spectrum, shall we say. These entities are basically of a harmless nature, yet are not the kind of entity which one would look to for inspiration of the spirit kind, shall we say. These entities are those which move through their existence in a somewhat random form, not having yet regularized those means of seeking which are available to them. We could suggest that if there is the desire to purify the new dwelling and call to your experience there entities of a more inspirational and positive nature, that you could undertake that type of cleansing which has been used within this particular dwelling, and which is available in written form in material which you may find here.

May we answer you further, my brother?

C: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, as always, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I guess I have a question. I’ve got a newly dead child, and a grandmother who is probably going to die very soon. I was wondering what work I can best do for them spiritually and mentally?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We can suggest general principles in this kind of situation where the desire to serve is a desire to serve one who is leaving your illusion and is making that transition which you have called the death. First, we would suggest that you work through your own grief for such an entity in a conscious or perhaps a prayerful manner before attempting to provide service to such an entity, for such service is best presented without those heavy feelings of grief which are the first natural response of your peoples to one’s leaving of the illusion.

Then we can suggest that within the prayerful state, the contemplative state, or within the meditative state you might, in joy, and praise, and thanksgiving for the passing, send these feelings of joy and praise and Love to the one who passes from your illusion. This will provide food, shall we say, a milieu or environment in which the entity may be strengthened in its continuing journey of seeking the One.

We might also suggest that as you have sent joy, praise, thanksgiving, and Love to such an entity, you may also visualize this entity surrounded in the white Light of the one Creator and you might send the mental suggestion to this entity that it remain in this white Light for as long as is possible, that it might rejoice in this Light, that it might find peace in this Light, that it might be directed by this Light to its next experience as the one Creator.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we find that we have for the moment completed those queries which were upon the minds of those present, and we are most grateful for such an opportunity to provide a simple service to each of you. We thank you, as always, for inviting our presence. We rejoice with you as you seek what is called truth. We remind each that our words are approximations of that truth. The whole and undistorted truth rests in your being. We hope to have pointed the way for you to find it more clearly there. We shall now take our leave of this instrument and of this group, leaving you always in Love, in Light, in peace, and in power. We are those of Latwii. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote from The Thunder of Silence is: “Sometimes that readiness comes only because of the futility and frustration that have gone before. Every sin, every disease, and every lack that have ever touched our lives have been a necessary part of our entire experience without which we would not have been made ready or prepared to receive the unfoldment of a truly spiritual message. I say this knowing that some of us have been down into the very depths where sins, disease, and lack are greatest, while others had very little with which to contend. Yet whatever the degree of the severity of the problem each one has had, it is perhaps the degree that each one has needed. Some cannot go up to the heights of spiritual vision until they have gone all the way down physically, mentally, morally, or financially. Some have had to go only halfway down, and some probably much less than that; but whatever depths you and I have known, that was the experience necessary for us to reach the heights.

Some of you may yet have to be pushed and prodded very hard and involved in a great many serious problems  before you will be able to embrace the principles set forth in this book; whereas some of you will absorb them very easily and without having any harassing problems to overcome. That, too, depends upon what degree of unfoldment you bring to this work.

This message is proved true only as it is individually demonstrated, and because of that it should be easy to understand why attempting to organize a religion around such a teaching or asking people to join anything as intangible as this would in  no way contributes to the objective of The Infinite Way which is that these principles permeate human consciousness and become tangible in individual experience. If any attempt were made to organize this teaching, it would be of benefit to no one; if monthly or annual dues were paid, it would be to no purpose; if mighty temples were built to enshrine these principles, or statues erected of the man who taught them, it would be of no avail.

One thing alone will demonstrate this teaching—realizing what the principles are and then taking the into your heart, and mind, and soul, and body, living with them, moving and having your being in them, with them, and through them, until they become demonstrable principles within you. Then you become the Light of this world, a world which may be bounded only by your immediate family or community, or which may be one so vast in its scope that it includes the entire globe. No two will be led in the same way; no two will evolve in the same manner. It all depends upon the degree of your individual unfoldment.”

Later this morning I went outside and hand-weeded the Yellow Creeping Jenny Garden in the back yard.

This afternoon I used my Whip Lash to weed the Astilbe Garden, and then I used Huff and Puff to blow the weeds into a pile. Then I put the weeds into a garbage can. Then I went on an errand run with my first stop being at Walmart where I bought five bags of Epsom Salts. My next stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought some Windex.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 24

The Ore Of Humankind

I am of the Spirit of Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

The gem-like quality of the pilgrim’s soul may be seen seldom with your dark physical eyes, for the ore of humankind is rough, and the exterior of most gem-like souls is pitted, darkened, and scarred by erosion and age.

It is the function of the Spirit of Love to enhance one’s eyesight when gazing at gold and gems in the rough. There is a vision which comes only to those who refuse to trust their physical eyes.

May you ask this boon of the Spirit of Christ, for each time that you see the Christ in another, you have become Christ to that other, and the gem that is your pilgrim’s soul is polished and faceted by deed and thought.

We leave you in the peace and comfort of love. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Oxal and Latwii channelings for this session come from August 12, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Oxal. I greet you in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We gratefully acknowledge our opportunity to work with the one known as S. Ours is not an easy contact, and we were attempting to practice with this instrument. We thank the one known as S for her cooperation, and will now speak for a few of your moments through this instrument. We thank each of you for calling us this evening. We are those who are more involved in the questions of the mind than the heart. We may suggest to each that our being called does not mean that each here has learned the lessons of the heart. It means only that there is a great call for wisdom, for clarity, and freedom from illusion.

It is perceived among your people that the heart cannot give freedom from pain, that the heart cannot see clearly, and that the heart is useful only as a means of generating experience, much of which is painful. This perception of your illusion may well be true. That is for each of you to say. For what is the heart? We with our wisdom gaze at compassion and realize that that balance between compassion and wisdom shall be our next lesson. But let us for a moment assume that there is in many of your people an excess of compassion which causes pain and then a desire to seek. Very well, my friends, the pain has its first meaning, for seeking is the activity of the deity. It is in some ways the definition of the Creator, the sign of the creation. A tree may appear to be rooted and still, yet does not each leaf seek the Light? So, you feel that love is so weak a tool that you must instead seek wisdom.

We shall share that which we feel to be correct with you, admonishing you that our opinions are fallible; therefore, take from our statements those things which are helpful and toss away the rest, for are we not all one, and is this knowledge not inside you that you seek now? Is this peace that you seek not also within you? Do you think perhaps that you are like a mountain—at the bottom there are verdant fields of Love, at the top, the peak places of wisdom. We say to you, your perceptions of wisdom will be greatly skewed until you learn the lessons of Love, and, therefore, we of Oxal wish to speak to you of Love from the standpoint of wisdom.

In this session Oxal spoke about the balance between Love and wisdom. They began by saying it is perceived among your people that the heart cannot give freedom from pain, that the heart cannot see clearly, and that the heart is useful only as a means of generating experience, much of which is painful, and this perception of your illusion may be true, so that is for each of you to say, for with our wisdom we gaze at compassion and realize that that balance between compassion and wisdom shall be our next lesson, but let us assume that there is in many of your people an excess of compassion which causes pain and then a desire to seek, for the pain has its first meaning since seeking is the activity of the deity, so it is in some ways the definition of the Creator, the sign of the creation, for a tree may appear to be rooted, yet each leaf seeks the Light, so you feel that Love is so weak a tool that you must seek wisdom. Oxal went on to say we shall share that which we feel to be correct with you, reminding you that our opinions are fallible, so take from our statements those things which are helpful and toss away the rest, for we are all one, and this knowledge that you seek is inside you as is this peace that you seek, and you think that you are like a mountain, and at the bottom there are fields of Love, and at the top are the peak places of wisdom, but we say your perceptions of wisdom will be skewed until you learn the lessons of Love, so we of Oxal wish to speak to you of Love from the standpoint of wisdom. On June 26, 1982, Latwii describe our lessons of Love:

The lessons of your density are the lessons of Love. When enough of your people learn to Love one another, then the entire creation sings and resounds with that harmony, and each atom rejoices and seeks to join more fully with each part of creation. Therefore, by whatever means is available to the entity, each entity might, therefore, send the Love and Light to the one creation in which your planet resides, to your planet itself, to each entity upon its surface, indeed into the self, and thereby assure the unification of all that is.

Let us look at perfect compassion. Let us look at a perfectly smoothly running, perfectly timed universe. Perfect compassion, which we call Love, for want of a better word, is power. It is power that has been so disciplined, guided, and considered that all things work together in harmony. That which powers the universe is not understood. That which powers the universe is Love. Wisdom is the vibration which Love uses. It is the material the artist uses to create experience for those who are conscious. Therefore, as you wish to learn the one original Thought, so you wish to learn all that there is. Wisdom is the refining of Love into its shapes, designs, its nuances, and its shadows. There is, shall we say, a ship with its sails furled upon a great sea. It may seem that you who are on the ship are victims of the wind and the waves, and your lack of knowledge of navigation and astrogation. However, there is within each of you an innate guide, a rudder, shall we say, that steers you if you will let it. That which steers you is not a wisdom but an association with Love, that Love which is the original Thought of the one Creator. Your voyage may seem endless, perilous, difficult, pointless, and confusing. This, my friends, is the voyage of one who has not yet picked up that association which forms the rudder of experience.

[Pause]

We apologize for the delay. We are feeding this instrument concepts that it is having difficulty enunciating. This in itself is an example of how the wisdom baffles the working of the deeper part. This instrument’s intellect does not see any association between the next concept and the previous one. Therefore, the instrument questions the concept, and we must pause in order to tune this instrument as we are talking and regain the line of our poor speech.

There is a call in this group this evening that stems from a very deep place, that place before time was or space. It is the call of the soul or spirit to the conscious self. We may take the voyager through space and through time, but it is that which is beyond space and time which will yield the simplicity, the peace, and the power which is sought. The fruit is single. We are all Love and we all distort that Love. We are each unique, and yet we are each perfect, both as we are and perfect in the literal sense of being, in part, beyond space and beyond time, a part of the Creator. That is why you already know each answer you seek. If we inspire you, it is but a remembering. And yet, that which you need to remember is buried, and therefore, in meditation, you sit and wait.

Oxal went on to say let us look at perfect compassion in a smoothly running, perfectly timed universe, for Love is power, and it is power that has been disciplined so that all things work together in harmony, but that which powers the universe is not understood, and that is Love, and wisdom is the vibration which Love uses, for it is the material the artist uses to create experience for those who are conscious, so as you wish to learn the one original Thought, you wish to learn all that there is, yet wisdom is the refining of Love into its shapes and its shadows, so there is a ship with its sails furled upon a great sea, and it may seem that you who are on the ship are victims of the wind and the waves, and your lack knowledge of navigation, but there is within each of you a guide that steers you if you will let it, but that which steers you is not wisdom but an association with Love which is the original Thought of the one Creator, so your voyage may seem endless and confusing, yet this is the voyage of one who has not yet picked up that association which forms the rudder of experience. Now Oxal said there is a call in this group that stems from a deep place that was before time was, and it is the call of the soul to the conscious self, so we may take the voyager through space and time, but it is that which is beyond space and time which will yield the peace and the power which is sought, but the fruit is single, for we are all Love, and we all distort that Love, and we are each unique, yet we are each perfect, both as we are and perfect in the literal sense of being beyond space and time, a part of the Creator, so that is why you know each answer you seek, for if we inspire you, it is but a remembering, yet that which you need to remember is buried, so in meditation you sit and wait. On September 4, 2010, Carla said that we are all part of the Creator:

So back to free will. What an incredible thing to know that we are all part of the Creator! We’ve all been sent out to gather intelligence; to see what we feel; to choose what to desire, to gather experiences and then to offer the whole incarnation back to the Creator as His food, or, as Ra would say, It’s food.

Those who seek, learn the meaning of the word patience. You seek the same thing over and over again. You seek to find the truth, the Love, the power within your daily experience which may well seem false, disturbing, and powerful only in its ability to cause pain. So many of your people, my friends, live in a narrow world, bounded by that which is seen, and heard, and felt. This group seeks that which is beyond the boundaries of the prison which is called your lifetime. Yet, my friends, we say prison, for you are indeed behind the bars of an illusion, the illusion that you were born in, and you will die in, and you will be no more. Within that illusion there are few good reasons for having faith, for behaving ideally, or for holding ideals. Yet the instinct of those who seek has put them in touch with the awareness that the true self, and, indeed, the majority of the self is outside the prison already.

You have put yourself in this situation and you have within you that which may remove you from the prison. We do not speak of death, although that certainly will remove the bars. We speak of your own ability to seek. What shall you seek? Observe yourself in any situation and let that observer within you ask, “What do you seek?” Do you seek love? Do you seek to become a messenger of love? Or do you perhaps seek that which may be well within the bounds of those who are still asleep and do not even know they are in prison? There are many apparent powers—money, position, relationships, the feeling of being in an appropriate place, and yet what is the true power? Look at each of those subjects and you shall see those things that change are not true but temporal. You seek peace, and within this world those same things that give you power are said to offer peace, and yet, do they? Ask yourself if any peace of a lasting and infinite nature occurs within the bounds of the temporal world.

Oxal went on to say those who seek learn the meaning patience, for you seek the same thing over and over again, so you seek to find the truth, Love, and power within your daily experience which may seem false and disturbing in its ability to cause pain, and so many of your people live in a narrow world, bounded by that which is seen, heard, and felt, but this group seeks that which is beyond the boundaries of the prison which is called your lifetime, yet we say prison, for you are behind the bars of the illusion that you were born in, and you will die in, so within that illusion there are few good reasons for having faith or for holding ideals, yet the instinct of those who seek has put them in touch with the awareness that the true self, and the majority of the self is outside the prison already. Oxal went on to say you have put yourself in this situation, and you have within you that which may remove you from the prison, but we do not speak of death, for we speak of your ability to seek, so observe yourself in any situation and let that observer within you ask: “What do you seek?” Do you seek love? Do you seek to become a messenger of love? Or do you perhaps seek that which may be well within the bounds of those who are still asleep and do not even know they are in prison? There are many apparent powers—money, position, relationships, the feeling of being in an appropriate place, and yet what is the true power?” Now Oxal said look at each of those subjects, and you shall see those things that change are not true but worldly, for you seek peace, and within this world those same things that give you power are said to offer peace, so ask yourself if any peace of a lasting and infinite nature occurs within the bounds of the worldly experience. On May 10, 1981, Hatonn spoke of the value of our seeking peace:

If you seek peace, know this: it is truly worth that which is paid for, and yet it may sometime seem like loss. Rest, then in your meditation, in the true peace of Love, and as you find your understanding causing you to act in such a way as to cause those about you to observe a difference in your actions, understand that those who radiate Love may also be counted as fools.

We have spoken also this evening of service. A great part of the peace that is true peace is service to others. Moment by moment you have unending opportunities to view your situations as opportunities to be of service, to sow a seed of calm, of Love, of kindness. Again, many times you may be countered as a fool, but my friends, it is the fools of this world who shall be in salvation. Only a fool can Love without judging. Only a foolish person can desire to serve those who are unlovable and can pray for those who are unattractive and cold in their misery.

Be fools, then. And join a joyful host of such fools, for those who Love will always be such. It is to be remembered that those ways of judging among your people are greatly various. It is to be remembered that it is impossible to judge, but through the grace of the inner Light and Love available to you, it is possible, indeed, to Love.

We shall say to you once again there is peace; there is power. Those things are to be sought carefully. You are those who Love. You do not Love in perfection as your conversation noted previously, and yet you attempt. In each attempt, is power and peace. The power of Love is unmistakable, healing, and radiant. Those who live in light manifest it. People are attracted to them and enjoy their company. It is not they, but the love channeled through them which is attractive. There is peace in loving that cannot be found by buying and selling, giving and taking. In bargaining there is no peace. In loving, alone, is there peace. If you love yourself completely you are at peace. If you wish to serve others in Love completely, you are at peace. Between these two points, in one degree or another, you shall not be at peace.

Therefore, we urge you at least once in your day to say to yourself, “Ah, the bars of my cage shall not hold me well, for I shall sit beyond space and time, and I shall seek Love; I shall seek the truth; and I shall do it in silence.” For there is, indeed, as one your holy works as said, a still, small voice that enables seeking to continue and flourish within you. We are those who learn the lessons of wisdom, and we see you as those tossed by the Creator which is yourself into the depths of your prisons, or to move back to our other analogy, those lost upon an endless sea. The point is that you are kept, somehow, apparently, from your freedom. In our seeking towards wisdom we see your people as those who now have the opportunity to face once again towards the same Creator that has flung you upon the water and cast you into prison. In meditation you may break forth from prison in contemplation and inspiration, in dreams, in converse with others who are seeking; you will find those things, those coincidences, those sentences which strike you, which tell you where to move your rudder, in which direction to go.

Oxal continued by saying there is peace and power, and they are to be sought carefully, for you are those who Love, but you do not Love in perfection, and yet you attempt to, and in each attempt is power and peace, yet the power of Love is unmistakable, healing, and radiant, for those who live in Light manifest it, so people are attracted to them and enjoy their company, but it is not they but the Love channeled through them which is attractive, and there is peace in loving that cannot be found by buying and selling, for in bargaining there is no peace, so only in loving is there peace, but if you Love yourself completely you are at peace, and if you wish to serve others in Love, you are at peace, so between these two points you shall not be at peace. Now Oxal said we urge you once in your day to say to yourself, “Ah, the bars of my cage shall not hold me well, for I shall sit beyond space and time, and I shall seek Love; I shall seek the truth, and I shall do it in silence,” for there is a still, small voice that enables seeking to flourish within you, so we are those who learn the lessons of wisdom, and we see you as those tossed by the Creator which is yourself into the depths of your prisons, or those lost upon an endless sea, so the point is that you are kept from your freedom, and in our seeking towards wisdom we see your people as those who have the opportunity to face the same Creator that has flung you upon the water and cast you into prison, but in meditation you may break forth from prison, and in converse with others who are seeking you will find those coincidences which strike you, which tell you in which direction to go. On September 28, 1996, Q’uo spoke of the value of meditation to seek direction from that still, small voice within us:

This is the central question of this meeting, for it has been asked of us when and how to know that still, small voice, and it is this voice that we could suggest that one listen to in order to know those times when it is appropriate to jump and those times when it is appropriate to wait. Thus, in all situations in which there is doubt it is our recommendation that one practice meditation. Meditate upon the action or inaction, for as long as it is necessary for you to hear that voice and to feel that impulse in one direction or the other. As we stated previously, it may happen in a moment. It may take a great deal of time, and while this process is going on again, we counsel faith that the process itself, and the action itself, and the entire incarnation will unfold as each should, for this is not a universe in which chance plays a significant part. It may seem so for many, but in the overall scheme if one could look with far-seeing eyes outside the incarnation one would see that there is the hand of the Creator in each event. That, indeed, not even a small sparrow falls to the ground without the knowledge of the Creator. Thus meditate, my sister. Meditate, and have faith, and go forth confidently.

That is the rhythm of each density. You are flung, out and you learn to return. It is you, yourself, who has placed you, each of you, as you are now, experiencing what you are now, dealing with what you are dealing with at this point. Turn then, to meditation and find out why. Climb the mountain slowly, slowly, my friends and see each step clearly. What you are doing at this point, what you are thinking, how you are seeking, how you are feeling; these are your tools. These are tools that can give you beauty beyond measure, that can make you rejoice, even, perhaps, as you weep. Before your footsteps lie the mountain, but you must climb it one step at a time, one day at a time, one moment at a time.

We rejoice now with you as we experience the vibration of this group and share our Love with you. We are very blessed to be able to speak this evening, to listen through the ears of this instrument to the cicadas and the murmur of your [inaudible]. Such beauty, my friends, in a single moment; it is almost too much to believe for us, for we do not experience your illusion. We seek a different kind of beauty and must learn to become aware differently. The beauty about you now, the beauty within you now, the power, the peace and the Love within you now is very striking to us, and we give thanks that we are able to join you.

Now Oxal said that is the rhythm of each density when you are flung out, and you learn to return, and it is you who has placed each of you, as you are experiencing what you are now, dealing with what you are dealing with at this point, so turn to meditation and find out why, but climb the mountain slowly, and see each step clearly, for what you are doing, thinking, seeking, and how you are feeling are your tools, and these are tools that can give you beauty beyond measure, that can make you rejoice, even as you weep, so before your footsteps lie the mountain, but you must climb it one step at a time. Oxal continued by saying we rejoice with you as we experience the vibration of this group and share our Love with you, for we are blessed to be able to speak this evening, to listen through the ears of Carla to the cicadas, and there is so much beauty in a single moment that is almost too much to believe for us since  we do not experience your illusion, for we seek a different kind of beauty and must learn to become aware differently, and the beauty about you now, the beauty within you now, the power, the peace and the Love within you now is very striking to us, and we give thanks that we are able to join you. On November 14, 1982, Hatonn spoke of the nature of Love within us:

The doors you wish to open to the outside world of service must first be opened from the inside, for your truth awaits the opening of that door. That truth cannot come to you. You must come to it, or at least open the door to it. It takes a mere moment to mentally open the door within. It takes one gentle thought to open a universe of Love within you. And with a universe of Love within you, my friends, what service can you help but be? Then you will not miss the chance to smile, and oh, my friends, what a lovely dance a smile makes. You will not miss a chance to reach and touch those who may need it. Indeed, my friends, there are many times when you feel that you are being of no service whatever because someone is aiding you, and you feel that you are on the receiving end and cannot possibly be of service. My friends, when with a grateful heart you receive, you have greeted the Creator in manifestation.

We would leave you now, having spoken far too long, we fear. We leave you in all that there is, Love and Light, the Love and the light of the One Who is All. I am known to you as Oxal. I leave this instrument. Adonai.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We are most privileged to once again join your group for the purpose of attempting to answer those queries which may be of aid in your seeking. We thank each for so inviting our presence. And we remind each that our humble words are but fallible opinions which we offer in hopes that they might be of some small service to you. May we then begin with the first query?

S: Yes, Latwii, I have a question from R, who will read your answer. He wanted to know if you could make any comment or give information about the faces he’s been seeing in his meditations. They’re all different, and they change; it’s not like he’s seeing the same faces over and over again. But he wanted your comment.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We find in this instance that we are once again relegated to the role of speaking in general terms in order that the free will of the one known as R might be preserved as he continues his journey of seeking. Each entity shall find within the meditative state certain experiences that are of significance upon the journey of seeking the truth, as you call it. These particular visions or faces which the one known as R has been experiencing are those portions of a larger process which is underway, shall we say, within this entity. One may look at each experience within your illusion as a symbol of that which is a deeper truth. This is also true within that state which you call meditation, though this state is capable of producing experiences of a greater clarity, shall we say, than your normal waking state. These images might be fruitfully used, we suggest, by the one known as R if they are looked at for a symbolic value, for a certain resonance which each contains. This resonance then may be placed by the entity with certain life experiences or lessons which are seeking expression at this time within this entity.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Well, since I’m not really sure, I guess I’ll just go with what you’ve given me because it sounds like it’ll be very helpful to him. I did have another question, though, on a different subject. About a month ago, R and I were almost on a daily basis having minor aches and pains back and forth and back and forth to the point where it became comical. We were making jokes about it and I would say, “Is your knee getting better now, because mine’s beginning to hurt?” I would like to know if you could give me any information about the possibilities of us maybe subconsciously attempting to heal each other or if there’s another explanation?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Again, to speak in general terms, we may suggest that it has been well said that those who together seek shall far more surely find. It has been your experience which you have shared with the one known as R to intensively seek …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii and am once again with this instrument. To continue our response. You may look at these experiences, as we have suggested before, for their symbolic value. As you proceed in your seeking together you shall find that the catalyst which you use is catalyst which you share. Those aches and pains, as you have called them, are indeed offering opportunities for the healing, as you have suggested. This is the purpose of all catalyst and experience, to speak generally. All distortions, all that is not whole, may be made whole and clear by the successful use of catalyst. Those experiences which you have shared of the physical discomfort are symbolic, and reach deeper into your shared experience and are representative of certain lessons which you share together upon levels other than the physical.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Well, if the aches and pains go away, does that mean that we have been successful in using the catalyst?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. In general, we would suggest that this assumption is correct. The catalyst which has not been well used in the mind is then given to the body that it might be noticed more fully and more fully utilized. This is not to say that should such physical representation of the catalyst disappear that the catalyst has been completely used, but is to say that it has been used to the point of clarity so that further symbolic manifestation in the physical body is not necessary.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Well, yes. You could clarify one more thing for me. Are you saying then that because we as a couple have spent a lot of time together there are some lessons that we chose to learn together, and that if both of us are not successful at any particular time … wait, that’s not what I mean. Okay, first of all, is what I’ve just said correct, and second of all, do we then have to work on the catalyst as a unit rather than as individuals?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. To speak to the first portion of your query, it is basically correct that you have chosen to learn certain lessons together, and that you have, as you progressed through your learning process, come not only to see each as a mirror for the other but have come to see the self in the other.

To speak to the second portion of your query, it is a most efficient means of learning for an entity to learn with another in order that this mirroring effect might be utilized to accelerate the learning process. It is quite possible to learn as a solitary being, but without the mirrors of other selves to show the self the intricacies of the self, the self then is more likely to miss the refining ability that mirrors provide.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: No, that’s been very illuminating. Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I’d like to follow up on S’s [inaudible]. It seemed to me that you were intimating, but not saying, that this couple, like many couples, have been not just through this incarnation together but through others and that that way … my question is, then, is the previous experience with each other necessary before you get to the point to where you are really working together, and what’s catalyst for one becomes catalyst for the other, and they’re sympathetic and so forth?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We can suggest that your assumption is in a great portion correct, for those entities which have had experience as the mated pair before this incarnation shall find that there is a great reservoir or resource which may be called upon by the deeper portions of the entity as the incarnation proceeds and as the mated relationship attempts to refine the process of evolution.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yes, just one final thing. In observing certain couples, I cannot see any karmic bonds. These are the couples that seem to be doing the best work together. Certainly R and S strike me as one such. Is the karma free … I guess what I’m really trying to ask is, is there a portion of the third density where mated pairs that have worked through the karma and have become free from karma as we understand it, then come back in order to become what some people have called masters or to find true balance, in other words, is a karma-less state a prerequisite for this particular lesson, that is, working as a couple?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We may suggest that that state which you have described as karma-free might be more clearly described as balanced karma. That is to say that entities of the mated relationship nature which have chosen to once again incarnate as mated pair are much more able to provide the services and learn the lessons chosen before the incarnation when the karma is what we would call balanced, rather than being out of balance so that one entity would need to assume a role that is more distorted from, shall we say, equality than the other in order that certain lessons left incomplete from previous incarnations might be balanced in the current incarnation.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Was that an affirmative answer? I get lost in your answers sometimes. Did you basically say, “Yeah”?

I am Latwii, and we beg your forgiveness for being somewhat abstruse from time to time. Yet, as we use this instrument’s mind, we find that there are certain concepts that, though helpful, do have certain tendrils of abstractness about them. We have attempted to suggest that your basic assumption was correct, yet we wished to make hopefully clearer the situation of entities that are utilizing the mated relationship efficiently, that is, their karma has been balanced rather than removed. To remove karma is to remove experience, and it is to remove a great reservoir or resource that is a great aid in the incarnation.

We might further suggest that as entities have gained experience as mated pairs in previous incarnations, and have balanced their karma, then the portion of the next incarnation devoted to the personal lessons grows smaller, and the portion devoted to providing services for others grows larger.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, thanks.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we find that we have for the moment exhausted the queries, and we are most appreciative for the opportunity to be of whatever service is possible by our humble words. We apologize for seeming to be without our normal humor and for seeming so formal in our replies. We are hopeful that as we continue to utilize this instrument that it shall be able to widen its own perceptive abilities and allow that which is of a lighter nature in our own being to shine through in our responses, for it is a great joy and a pleasure for our group to be able to make contact with your own, and we wish to give this joyful feeling expression whenever possible. We are those of Latwii, and we shall now leave this group and instrument, rejoicing in the Love and in the Light of the One within all. Adonai, my friends. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote from Joel Goldsmith’s The Thunder of Silence is: “The only real strength there is, is in conscious union with God and in a realization of the true nature of spiritual power. When we have that realization, one with God becomes a majority. One individual having the spiritual understanding of the nature of God becomes a law of harmony, health, and supply unto thousands and thousands of people all over the world. That is where the strength is—in union with God.

For centuries, country after country has been seeking its freedom. Many a country has temporarily found what it thought was freedom only to find itself enslaved later on by something more powerful than that from which it had broken free.

It is not possible to get free from anything This is a hard saying, bitter in the mouth and even more bitter in the belly. There are thousands of people trying to free themselves from husbands or wives, thinking that when that particular freedom is gained their lot is going to be a better one. Sometimes it is, temporarily; but even if it is, it is only a human solution, not permanent and real, because no one ever gets free. To become free from one thing is to become attached to another thing. There is no freedom from anything. The only complete freedom is a freedom in Christ.

To leave one religious organization to join another is to find freedom from one only to become involved in another. That is not freedom. Nor can a person find spiritual freedom by leaving one country for another, even though they may improve their material lot as has been demonstrated by the millions of immigrants to the North American continent who have improved their physical well-being. The mere change of locale, however, does not necessarily mean peace, happiness, safety, or security because not one of these can be found in flags, countries, or continents—they cannot even be found in health or wealth, but only in the realization of God, which brings a release from fear of what people can do, or from circumstances or conditions. Harmony is found, not by exchanging one condition of bondage for another, but by coming out from under the law and living under that Grace which is the gift of God. For a while, unfortunately, there remain the thousand on our left and the ten thousand on our right who will not accept the grace of God and who brought forth from the Master His sorrowful, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!“ This is the one remaining sorrow after we have attained our own freedom, this sorrow of looking at our parents, children, sisters, or brothers, our husband or wife, our fellow countrymen, and thinking, “Why can’t you accept this thing that I have found?” But the longer we are on this path the easier it will be for us to understand that it is not possible for anyone to embrace truth except in proportion to their readiness for it.”

Later this morning I went on an errand run with my first stop being at The Home Depot where I bought some more netting. My second stop was at Thieneman’s Nursery where I bought a pair of gardening gloves. My third stop was at Feeder’s Supply where I bought more bird seed. My fourth stop was at Kroger’s where I bought some food for myself. My fifth stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some more food for myself. My sixth stop was at Speedway Gas where I filled all of Stanley’s tires with 32 psi air, and I filled his tank with premium gasoline.  My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I picked up a prescription and bought some Tylenol, some Haggen Dasz ice cream, and some napkins.

This afternoon I weeded the Day Lily patch along the south side of the garage, and I filled a five-gallon bucket with the weeds. Then I put the bucket at the end of the driveway.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 23

Look Again

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

Divinity may seem to have no part in your experience as you awaken to yet another day of traffic, work, chores to do and lists to be made and scratched out. Yet it is the prayer of the Spirit of the living Christ that divinity may be at all times in utterly close proximity to each spirit, however concerned with the mundane, however overwhelmed with the everyday chores of a busy life.

You will find the Spirit between the motes of dust, within the glimmer of moisture upon a cobweb, rounding like fog at the corners of the heart.

Our prayer is our presence. Do not turn from dust and chores and dailiness to seek the living waters of spiritual food but, rather, gaze at them more closely, for there is no day so busy nor prison so closely bound that the Spirit is not within each task and each bar.

We would rescue that state of mind, which does not relish earthly things yet sees none other, from inward blindness by saying, “Look again.” For shall not divine Love penetrate and, with your desire, have strength to transform each and every action which you may take this day?

We leave you in that striving which is the peace of Christ, now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session come from August 5, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn. I greet you in the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator. We are most grateful to be able to speak with this group this evening and greet with great joy the one known as S. How beautiful is the desire of each heart that seeks a dwelling place in the metaphysical sense. And what beauty within beauty shall that seeking unfold. We greet you in Love. At times we feel perhaps we should make more effort to point out the reason for our greeting you and our leaving you in Love and in Light. We do this because of our opinion that this greeting expresses as well as words can all that there is either knowable or numenal within our experience. “The Love of the one infinite Creator” is, indeed, a practice in redundancy of phrase, for Love is the one infinite Creator having been called from the deeps of the universe’s infinite rhythm that this creation and all others may be born, coalesce, experience, be flung outward and ultimately recoalesce within the great heart that beats beyond all telling.

That which you know of and think of as the Creator is already one step from the Creator. And yet this is all that we shall be able to tell you of the Creator, that the Creator is one Thought, one powerful, fiery, and creative Thought which we call Love. This Love then acts in infinite variety upon that material which is called Light in order to make all the vibrations and rotations which cause the illusion in which you now exist and all other illusions including the one in which we now enjoy experience. What else could we find as words of greeting? The Maker and the material, these are the elements of our greeting, for these are all that there is besides the free will that has caused each of your consciousnesses to be as they are. Whatever your consciousness, whatever your state of mind, whatever your emotions or your spiritual path, your Creator is Love and the material of which you are made is Light. The vibrations are yours to choose through the act of free will.

In this session Hatonn wanted to speak about the Love of the Creator. They began by saying at times we feel we should make more effort to point out the reason for our greeting you and our leaving you in Love and in Light, and we do this because of our opinion that this greeting expresses as well as words can all that there is knowable within our experience, so “The Love of the one infinite Creator” is a practice in redundancy of phrase, for Love is the one infinite Creator having been called from the deeps of the universe’s infinite rhythm that this creation and all others may be born, coalesce, experience, be flung outward and ultimately recoalesce within the great heart that beats beyond all telling. Hatonn went on to say that which you think of as the Creator is one step from the Creator, yet this is all that we shall be able to tell you of the Creator, that the Creator is one powerful and creative Thought which we call Love, and this Love acts in an infinite variety of Light in order to make all the vibrations and rotations which cause the illusion in which you now exist, and all other illusions, including the one in which we experience, so the Maker and the material are the elements of our greeting, for these are all that there is besides the free will that has caused each of your consciousnesses to be as they are, yet whatever your consciousness, your emotions, or your spiritual path, your Creator is Love, and the material of which you are made is Light, so the vibrations are yours to choose through the act of free will. On October 11, 1987, Latwii spoke of how our Creator is Love:

If your heart and mind resound with an echo of recognition when we say that your Creator is Love, then you shall see why we ask that the key word of trust offers much to one whose illusory or Earth life is being experienced as tragic, sorrowful, difficult or upsetting. Equally, we would say that all are successful in some way, for you see, the experiences of an incarnation are ever up and down, ever positive and negative. The clue is given in the lack of consistency of either state of mind within what is called the human condition. When one is content, one does not agonize over one’s proper point of view, one’s appropriate relation towards the Creator. It is the sorrows and the difficulties which bring mind and heart to a state of attention, to a state of questioning, and we hope that this is persistent and determined, for there is a good outcome, that is to say, a satisfying and positive outcome to such a search. The obvious and only reaction to Love is Love.

We wish to speak through this instrument this evening in such a way that this instrument has no idea of what is coming next. We are continuing to develop this instrument in order that it may be more sensitive to the content of our thoughts once it is assured that we are able to pass the challenge of the tuning which this instrument calls Christ and which others may call Christ consciousness or white Light. As always, we encourage each in all cases when the vibration is felt to challenge the entity and to bid goodbye with blessing and Love to any about which it feels even doubtful. For those who are of the positive path are those of Christ consciousness as you know it. For Christ consciousness is Love, and the teacher you know as Jesus was a perfect example of that Love. And the incarnation and teachings of this teacher constitute a body which when studied will yield some awareness of the nature of the penetration of the illusion and the understanding of freedom.

Then Hatonn said we wish to speak through this instrument this evening in such a way that this instrument has no idea of what is coming next, for we are continuing to develop Carla in order that she may be more sensitive to the content of our thoughts once it is assured that we are able to pass the challenge of the tuning which she calls Christ, and which others may call Christ consciousness or white Light, but we encourage each in all cases when the vibration is felt to challenge the entity and to bid goodbye with blessing and Love to any about which it feels even doubtful, for those who are of the positive path are those of Christ consciousness and Christ consciousness is Love, and Jesus was a perfect example of that Love, so the incarnation and teachings of this teacher constitute a body which when studied will yield some awareness of the nature of the penetration of the illusion and the understanding of freedom. On July 28, 1985, Latwii spoke of the nature of Christ consciousness:

As the vibratory frequency becomes more filled with Light, shall we say, or the energy of creation, to put it another way, the ability of an entity within such a vibratory frequency to experience the Christ consciousness is enhanced and, therefore, suffers less distortion. In some fashion, any entity achieving this Christ consciousness will have experienced unity with the one Creator and will be thus enspirited and inspired to be of further service to those about it, for each is seen as a portion of the one Creator to know that it is indeed Loved and Love itself. One who knows this facet of the one Creator, that is, Love, then seeks to share that experience and power with those who call for it. Within your illusion, the lessons which all pursue in a unique fashion focus on the concept of Love.

We would speak to you now about one who went about hungry for many things. Let us call this entity a woman and let us place this entity in a city. This young woman is hungry for those things which life may teach her, for those foods which life may give to her. And over and over again she pursues one path and then another, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. She looks to the sea, to the sky, to all the pleasures that can be bought with money and the sensations that can be experienced because of the great generosity of your creation. This woman becomes older and chooses to herself a true love. She experiences the pain and the joy of loving another and in time the even more painful and joyful experience of children.

In each pleasure, she reflects to herself in her old age, she has seen pain. If the sky was lovely, soon it would rain, if the earth bore her footprints lightly, soon she would get a blister. All that she loved caused more pain and joy and at the end of her life she was still hungry for experiences, experiences which she felt instinctively were hers. Many people there are that come to illness, older years, and even the deathbed knowing nothing but dissatisfaction and hunger. And yet they do not know that for which they hunger nor can they. For they have been separated by a belief in outer pleasure. What we wish to share with you this evening, my friends, in part is that there is no separation between this woman and Love, nor is there separation between anyone and that same Love. It is not easy to find unity with mankind when mankind is so dissatisfactory. And yet it is this mankind, person by person, which wears your face, and which thinks your thoughts, and seeks with your hunger.

Now Hatonn spoke about a woman that hungered for many things. Hatonn began by saying we would speak to you about one who went about hungry for many things, so let us call this entity a woman, and let us place this entity in a city, for this young woman is hungry for those things which life may teach her, for those foods which life may give to her, and over and over again she pursues one path and then another, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and she looks to the sea, to the sky, to all the pleasures that can be bought with money and the sensations that can be experienced because of the generosity of your creation, but this woman becomes older and chooses for herself a true love, so she experiences the pain and the joy of loving another and in time the even more painful and joyful experience of children. Then Hatonn said in each pleasure she reflects to herself in her old age, for she has seen pain, and if the sky was lovely, soon it would rain, and if the earth bore her footprints lightly, soon she would get a blister, yet all that she loved caused more pain and joy, and at the end of her life she was still hungry for experiences which she felt were hers, and many people there are that come to illness, older years, and even the deathbed knowing nothing but dissatisfaction and hunger, yet they do not know that for which they hunger nor can they, for they have been separated by a belief in outer pleasure, so what we wish to share with you this evening is that there is no separation between this woman and Love, nor is there separation between anyone and that same Love, but it is not easy to find unity with mankind when mankind is so dissatisfactory, and it is mankind, person by person, which wears your face, and which thinks your thoughts, and seeks with your hunger. On September 16, 2001, Q’uo described the difficulty in finding unity:

This is the great geste, my friend: to see Love where there is little reason to see it, to find unity where separation seems the only logical path, to see a brother or a sister instead of an enemy. It is not easy, my friends. But you did not incarnate with an easy plan for learning and for service. For this is the culmination of your planet’s great Master Cycle of third-density evolution. It is at this time that those great swings of power over people can be balanced by Love for people.

The teacher known to you as Jesus offered peace. But immediately following this offering He said very clearly, “This peace is not what the world thinks of as peace.” He spoke of a journey and one of those whom He taught said,“ We do not understand what journey upon which you go.“ To which the teacher replied, “Each of us is the journey. The journey is not outside yourself. You do not seek for something as if you were grabbing at the ring at a carnival ride. You are seeking within yourself, and this then will bring you peace.” We would say to you, my friends, that it is a kind of peace that the world often finds suspect and sometimes even dangerous. The smile of joy in the face of apparent trouble seems not a victory, but an inappropriate reaction. The heart and the courage to lift oneself up in the face of a daunting situation seems to a dark world the action of a fool or at least one who is not paying sufficient attention.

My friends, have you ever wondered why in various holy works high places are considered holy? You must know that all things are holographs for all other structures. The structure of yourselves, the structure of the Earth, the structure of the Universe—study one, you begin to understand the others. Yes, the high mountainous, the peak is holy and not because your thinking causes it to be so but because of the nature of height. As one looks down from a height, one sees many more than things than one may see when one is in the valley, on the surface, unable to see over the next ridge or knoll, past the next tree or rock. Within yourself, each of you has the opportunity to experience the deep surfaces, the crevices, the rocks, the valleys, the vales, and the forests of existence.

Now Hatonn wanted to speak about our spiritual journey. They began by saying Jesus offered peace, but following this offering He said, “This peace is not what the world thinks of as peace,” for He spoke of a journey, and one of those whom He taught said, “We do not understand what journey upon which you go,“ and the teacher replied, “Each of us is the journey. The journey is not outside yourself. You do not seek for something as if you were grabbing at the ring at a carnival ride. You are seeking within yourself, and this then will bring you peace,” and we would say to you that it is a kind of peace that the world finds suspect and sometimes dangerous, for the smile of joy in the face of trouble seems not a victory but an inappropriate reaction, so the heart and the courage to lift oneself up in the face of a daunting situation seems to a dark world the action of a fool. Now Hatonn said you must know that all things are holographs for all other structures, and the structure of yourselves, the structure of the Earth, the structure of the Universe—study one, and you begin to understand the others, for the high mountainous peak is holy because of the nature of height since as one looks down from a height, one sees many more than things than one may see when one is in the valley and unable to see over the next ridge, past the next tree or rock, but within yourself, each of you has the opportunity to experience the rocks, the valleys, and the forests of existence. On April 2, 2016, Q’uo described the nature of finding that which is holy:

The meditative state is that place wherein you tabernacle with the most high, the holy of holies within your holy ground. Go, therefore, you to this ground and seek the answers that are most important to you. Do not attempt to decide with your mental faculties important questions of spiritual nature. Go there within to the heart of your being to find those answers there in the meditative state.

Each has ample opportunity to choose to be misled, to be unhappy, to feel darkness. Each of you also has within you the birthright and the opportunity at all times to seek the high places. Walk then in meditation up your own mountain. Picture yourself cleansing yourself at a clear, cool, and refreshing mountain stream. And then clad in clean garments, visit the most high place of your being in meditation and in peace. Metaphysical peace does not deny the apparent chaos of a boisterous illusion but rather reaffirms and restates for you once again the perfection of the Creator, the Creator that is in you and the you that is in the Creator. You are old, older than rocks, and sky, and earth, and sea. You are consciousness. You have seen, and experienced, and chosen many things. Today you may choose again. It is only through meditation that your choices will be consistently positive. And by that we mean that your choices will be consistently those of service to others.

When one is upon the rock, how easy it is to feel that there is no one to serve, and if there were others to serve, yet there is no chance of true service. It is easy upon a rock to wonder where you will be fed, when you will be served, and yet you have plenty of food. As you gain in compassion, so you gain in your nearness to time spent and to infinite supply. Only you know what shall fill your appetite for peace, for Love, and for giving of that which you have gained to those about you. We hope you have hearty appetites. Our hearts are full with gratitude and thanksgiving that you have allowed us to share our thoughts with you. We are quite prone to error and are anything but authoritarian. Never take our word to be absolute, but rather, test it against this illusion on a daily basis over a period of time. If what we say is so, your life shall be considerably simplified and most certainly changed. If the change is towards an inner joy and peace, then we have spoken well. If what we say is not appropriate, toss it aside without a backward glance for there is inspiration everywhere. We are only one of countless sources. Listen, my friends, with inward and with outward ears to the joyous voices of the infinite Creator. Listen always, even when you talk. For you, too, are full of inspiration. Find inspiration in silent sayings as well, for the voice of the Creator is often silent.

Hatonn continued by saying each has the opportunity to choose to be unhappy or to feel darkness, but each of you also has the the opportunity to seek the high places, so walk in meditation up your own mountain, and picture yourself cleansing yourself at a clear, cool, and refreshing mountain stream, and then clothe yourself in clean garments and visit the highest place of your being in meditation because metaphysical peace does not deny the chaos of a boisterous illusion but reaffirms for you the perfection of the Creator that is in you, and the you that is in the Creator, for you are older than rocks, and sky, and earth, and sea, for you are consciousness, and you have experienced many things, so today you may choose again, but it is only through meditation that your choices will be consistently positive, and by that we mean that your choices will be those of service to others. Hatonn continued by saying when one is upon the rock, how easy it is to feel that there is no one to serve, and if there were others to serve, yet there is no chance of true service, for it is easy upon a rock to wonder where you will be fed, when you will be served, yet you have plenty of food, and as you gain in compassion you gain in your nearness to infinite supply, but only you know what shall fill your appetite for peace, for Love, and for giving of that which you have gained to those about you, so we hope you have hearty appetites, and our hearts are full with gratitude that you have allowed us to share our thoughts with you, but we are prone to error, so never take our word to be absolute, but test it against this illusion on a daily basis, and if what we say is so, your life shall be simplified and changed, so if the change is towards an inner joy and peace, then we have spoken well, but if what we say is not appropriate, toss it aside without a backward glance, for there is inspiration everywhere, and listen with inward and with outward ears to the joyous voices of the infinite Creator, yet listen always, even when you talk, for you are full of inspiration, so find inspiration in silent sayings, for the voice of the Creator is often silent. On March 8, 1974, Oxal said that the voice of the Creator is everywhere:

Yes, my friends, you are listening to the voice of the Creator. You hear the voice of the Creator each day, my friends, as you go about your daily activities. It is only necessary to recognize it. As you meet your friends in your daily activities, as they speak, then you hear the voice of your Creator. Birds singing in the trees, my friends, speak with the voice of the Creator. The very winds that blow through these trees speak to you, my friends. And this noise that you hear is the voice of the Creator, for the Creator’s expressions are infinite. It is only necessary that you hear and see these expressions and then, when you hear and see them, it is then necessary that you understand them, to understand that these are the Creator.

We must leave you at this time as we are having difficulty with this contact. I am Hatonn, and I bless and thank and greet each of you and assure you that we are with you at any time you may request us mentally in meditation. We have come to you, for we are Love, for you are Love, for the creation is Love. And we speak to you because all things manifest in Light. We leave you in the Love and in the Light of the infinite Creator. Adonai vasu borragus.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in that same Love and Light that our brothers and sisters of Hatonn have left you in. What a blessing it is to speak to this group this evening. May we also welcome the one known as S, who has in your measure of time been long absent from this group, though not absent from our blessings and our presence. Our service, as always, is that of attempting to answer those queries which each brings as a means of continued seeking. May we then begin with the first query?

J: It’s always good to hear your voice, Latwii. I have a query. I have an idea for a product which requires a patent, but I’m just sitting on it, not doing anything about it. Can you tell me anything about it?

I am Latwii, and, my brother, we are most happy to hear your voice as well and to attempt to the best of our ability to respond to your query. In this instance we find that there is a means by which you may pursue certain lessons through this activity that you have devised. We cannot give advice as to whether or not you should or should not proceed in any particular manner with a lesson which has implications for your evolution, for it would not be proper for us to point you in any particular direction. Yet we would suggest that when you find an inspiration which has come to you as a result of your seeking, and when this inspiration takes a form which you feel is well, that it is helpful to follow inspirations. For whatever the outward form of any inspiration, it fulfils a deeper need and offers the opportunity for the growth of the being, shall we say. In short, we suggest following those inspirations which come from within the being.

May we answer you further, my brother?

J: Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: Just to follow that up. Is there anything legitimately wrong with making bucks, with money?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We do not find the wrongness, shall we say, in any action which any of your people might contemplate, for all actions are productive of the opportunity to learn and offer each entity an avenue to do so. That which you have called money is one particular item within your illusion which has much controversy gathered about it, for there are many on the spiritual path who find the concern with the monetary matters to be quite inappropriate. We suggest that any action or thought may be used efficiently by the seeker of truth.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Do you want to repeat that last sentence?

I am Latwii, and it was our suggestion that any action or thought could be well used by the seeker of truth. It is the intention that is the factor of most importance.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: I’d always had a kind of a hunch that the only reason that money had such a bad name in spiritual circles was that it tended to become an end in itself, like idolatry of some sort. Is that somewhere close to the way that it really is?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We might suggest the general principle in this case could be generally stated as that which is of most importance in the life of the seeker is that which continues to provide an avenue for further seeking. That which becomes an end in itself ends the seeking and, indeed, becomes that which you have called an idol and is that which is of less importance for it has limited value and indeed limits the seeking.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, that was fine, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we are somewhat surprised that we have exhausted queries so early in the evening with a group which is so full of the inquiring nature of the seeker. We perceive that there are some queries which have yet to reach their final form and would ask once again if there might be any kind of query to which we might attempt reply?

S: Okay, I have one. Why is there always that stumbling block that all of us seem to go through? Where you want to tell people all about what’s going on, there always seems to be that large hurdle one has to make. And some people stop there, and some people can go ahead, go through and one’s progress and search is so much easier when we do. I’m speaking of the [inaudible] where everyone wants to wear their spirituality on their sleeve, and I speak from experience because I went through it too. But it seems to me that it would be so much easier and so much more enlightened if we didn’t have to have that road block in the way.

I am Latwii, and we feel that we have the gist of your query, my sister, and we thank you for asking a query which is of great interest to our own seeking. For we are speaking to this group as a result of a desire to be of service to the one Creator in our way. You speak first of that desire one feels to speak what one has found to be true of a spiritual nature to those with whom one has relationship. The seeker, when first embarking upon the path in a conscious manner, will undergo that experience which is likened unto the fire being set within the heart. The seeker has perceived that which is of great value, yet is somewhat overwhelmed by the nature, the depth, and the potential of that which has been encountered. Whatever the means the seeker has used, whatever the group the seeker has joined, whatever thought the seeker …

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(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and am once again with this instrument. To continue. Whatever means the seeker has used to begin the conscious search for truth, shall we say, the seeker then finds that which it wishes to share with others and to influence the others as the seeker has been influenced. It is a fire which burns most brightly for those beginning the journey. Yet it is a fire which is in need of, shall we say, the gentle touch. For such a fire can burn and singe and sear as well as illuminate the darkness. It is not for the seeker to be, shall we say, adeptly able to shine the light in the manner it is needed in each instance. It is more likely that the seeker shall run about with the torch burning brightly, sparks flying, little fires smoldering here and there, quickly extinguished, unless, of course, there is the chance for the lighting of another fire which is possible upon occasion, for there are those who need but a gentle nudge to have their own flames ignited. Yet it is most likely that the seeker shall find great difficulty in using this flame in a manner which is both loving and wise.

S asked: “Why is there always that stumbling block that all of us seem to go through?” Latwii replied we are speaking to this group as a result of a desire to be of service to the one Creator in our way, and you speak first of that desire one feels to speak what one has found to be true of a spiritual nature to those with whom one has relationship, so the seeker, when first embarking upon the path in a conscious manner, will undergo that experience which is likened unto the fire being set within the heart, for the seeker has perceived that which is of great value, yet it is overwhelmed by the nature and the potential of that which has been encountered. Then Latwii said whatever means the seeker has used to begin the conscious search for truth the seeker finds that which it wishes to share with others and to influence the others as the seeker has been influenced, for it is a fire which burns brightly for those beginning the journey, yet it is a fire which is in need of the gentle touch, for such a fire can burn one as well as illuminate the darkness, but it is not for the seeker to be able to shine the Light in the manner it is needed in each instance because it is more likely that the seeker shall run about with the torch burning brightly and little fires smoldering here and there, quickly extinguished, unless, of course, there is the chance for the lighting of another fire which is possible upon occasion, for there are those who need but a gentle nudge to have their own flames ignited, yet it is likely that the seeker shall find difficulty in using this flame in a manner which is both loving and wise. On November 21, 2005, Q’uo spoke of how we can be loving and wise to improve the world around us:

We ask that you become more and more aware that you have the opportunity, at this time, within this incarnation, to turn that energy within yourself around and to become stewards, loving and wise, of whatever little acre or square foot that you may have of planet Earth. What does your space need? If you are one who has property, we would ask you to commune with your land. And not simply with your land, but with your local situation. What local situations having to do with planet Earth have gone awry on your watch, in your neighborhood? And what can one person do to bring them gently into more harmony with those things which the planet itself needs? Are your waters foul? What can you do? Is there a lack of sustainable practice amongst your businesses? What can you do?

We could go on and on, listing the kinds of simple, down-to-earth, human, local problems to which you may address yourself. Whether you do have land or whether you live on the thirty-seventh floor of a high-rise, yet still you are part of planet Earth. What can you do? What are your gifts, and what kind of problems do you see? You are potentially one of those who is able, as one simple, single being, full of flaws, and yet full of good intentions, to join in groups that have a hope of coping with and creating solutions to those imbalances that have resulted in pollution and illness within the planet itself.

The healing begins within your own heart whether you live on a large parcel of land, a small parcel of land, or in that high-rise of which we spoke earlier. Heal the pollution within yourself. Love yourself. Be a steward to your own body, your own mind, your own nature and your own advancement. As you see your own advancement, do not take someone else’s word for what constitutes healing and advancement. Move within your own being where sources of guidance are thick on the ground and begin asking for that guidance to speak to you. Let that guidance spring to life from the world around you. Observe synchronicities and listen to words, phrases and thoughts that take you and make you imagine, hope and dream. For your imagination is the key to forming a new paradigm for living in a new time, on a new Earth, and in a new dawning of possibilities.

Now we move on to that subject of the stumbling block in general. Every so-called stumbling block is most important for any seeker, whatever nature the stumbling block may take. For it is not the purpose of your illusion nor of your incarnation to move smoothly without the jolts and jangles and stumbling from time to time. It is in such upsetting of the journey that all is shifted about so that there needs from time to time to be a reassessment of that which has been gained, and that which is sought, and the means for doing so by the seeker of truth. It is at such times that whatever spiritual strength that has been gained by the seeker is put into play and is allowed its full reach that the seeker, as the young kitten, may test itself and roll and tumble with life and its catalyst, if we may pun, and find that new synthesis of being. The continuation of the journey of seeking is that which is most important for it is an infinite journey, and each stumbling block does not in truth hinder the journey but truly speeds it by providing the opportunity for that which is old and worn and no longer useful to be discarded and for that which is a new possibility for the seeker’s consideration to be placed before the seeker’s mind.

Then Latwii said now we move on to that subject of the stumbling block in general. Every so-called stumbling block is most important for any seeker, whatever nature the stumbling block may take. For it is not the purpose of your illusion nor of your incarnation to move smoothly without the jolts, and jangles, and stumbling from time to time. It is in such upsetting of the journey that all is shifted about so that there needs from time to time to be a reassessment of that which has been gained, and that which is sought, and the means for doing so by the seeker of truth, for it is at such times that whatever spiritual strength that has been gained by the seeker is put into play and is allowed its full reach that the seeker, as the young kitten, may test itself and roll and tumble with life and its catalyst, if we may pun, and find that new synthesis of being. The continuation of the journey of seeking is that which is most important for it is an infinite journey, and each stumbling block does not in truth hinder the journey but truly speeds it by providing the opportunity for that which is old and worn and no longer useful to be discarded and for that which is a new possibility for the seeker’s consideration to be placed before the seeker’s mind. On August 5, 1984, Latwii spoke of the nature of the stumbling block:

Now we move on to that subject of the stumbling block in general. Every so-called stumbling block is most important for any seeker, whatever nature the stumbling block may take. For it is not the purpose of your illusion nor of your incarnation to move smoothly without the jolts, and jangles, and stumbling from time to time. It is in such upsetting of the journey that all is shifted about so that there needs from time to time to be a reassessment of that which has been gained and that which is sought and the means for doing so by the seeker of truth. It is at such times that whatever spiritual strength that has been gained by the seeker is put into play and is allowed its full reach that the seeker, as the young kitten, may test itself and roll and tumble with life and its catalyst, if we may so pun, and find that new synthesis of being. The continuation of the journey of seeking is that which is most important for it is an infinite journey and each stumbling block does not in truth hinder the journey but truly speeds it by providing the opportunity for that which is old and worn and no longer useful to be discarded and for that which is a new possibility for the seeker’s consideration to be placed before the seeker’s mind.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: No. I have another question, though. How much spiritual progress can be done on a subconscious level, as opposed to a combination of consciousness and subconsciousness working together? Can you give me a number level or a … that can be reached on subconscious completely or through a dream state or something like that?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Here we find that the response to this query may be that which surprises, much as this illusion is that which hides the truth and which surprises the seeker when it finds the truth. Indeed, my sister, we would suggest that the spiritual treasures which may be gained in your illusion are very infrequently gained in a conscious manner. The conscious assessment of spiritual progress is an attempt which is most futile. For within your illusion, the treasures of the one Creator are hidden beneath what may be called the veil of forgetting. And as you move through the illusion and encounter those situations which are yours to encounter, you shall deal with them in one manner or another and shall consciously register the effects within your mind and shall count the gain and note the loss and shall feel satisfaction or dismay. But in truth, that which has been gained of a spiritual nature has eluded the notice of the conscious mind.

It is as though the merchant who buys and sells the goods stores in his vault the gold of trade and measures his success by the gold, its purity and weight, and when the day finally comes that this entity passes from this incarnation and reads his own book of life, he will find that it was not the gold that was stored, not its purity, not its weight that is of importance in his life. Yet it was the manner in which the transactions were conducted with the other selves, the Love that was given, the Love that was received. It is so with the life of each. Each counts spiritual gold by the definition which each provides for the self. Yet, as you move within an illusion, so is the description of spiritual gold most illusory. That which is true value in the metaphysical sense is indeed stored up within your being but is of a nature which is quite beyond description and beyond your comprehension for it is not an illusion of comprehension in which you move. There is nothing which is understood completely or even in a small degree. You move within an illusion which requires faith and the will to move. You move in what might be called a darkness of being, seeking the small slivers of Light. And it is within the heart of your being that such seeking is motivated and recorded in its true sense.

S asked: “How much spiritual progress can be done on a subconscious level, as opposed to a combination of consciousness and subconsciousness working together?” Latwii began by saying we would suggest that the spiritual treasures which may be gained in your illusion are infrequently gained in a conscious manner, for the conscious assessment of spiritual progress is an attempt which is futile, for within your illusion the treasures of the one Creator are hidden beneath the veil of forgetting, and as you move through the illusion and encounter those situations which are yours to encounter, you shall deal with them in one manner or another, and you shall consciously register the effects within your mind, so you shall count the gain, and note the loss, and you shall feel satisfaction or dismay, but that which has been gained of a spiritual nature has eluded the notice of the conscious mind. Then Latwii said it is as though the merchant who buys and sells the goods stores in his vault the gold of trade and measures his success by the gold, and when the day comes that this entity passes from this incarnation and reads his own book of life, he will find that it was not the gold that was stored that is of importance in his life, yet it was the manner in which the transactions were conducted with other selves, the Love that was given and received, and it is so with the life of each, for each counts spiritual gold by the definition which each provides for the self, yet as you move within an illusion, so is the description of spiritual gold most illusory because that which is of true value in the metaphysical sense is stored up within your being but is of a nature which is beyond description and beyond your comprehension, for it is not an illusion of comprehension in which you move since there is nothing which is understood, for you move within an illusion which requires faith and will to move, and you move in a darkness of being, seeking the small slivers of Light, and it is within the heart of your being that such seeking is motivated and recorded in its true sense. On December 14, 1986, Q’uo described the value of our exercising our faith and will:

This is, indeed, the mystery, my sister, for within the third-density illusion, each seeker of what you call the truth places itself in a position of receptivity to that truth by the intensity of the seeking, the strength of faith and will, so that at some point within the cycle of incarnations, it is possible for such a seeker to not only discover that which it seeks, but to become that which it seeks. Thus is the meaning of the resurrection within third density. The seeker builds with mortal hands a manifested life that may be constructed in such a fashion in metaphysical terms that that known as Love may move through the being in such a pure fashion as to shine as that which it is, the pure and virgin consciousness of the one Creator, moving to gain the experience of the creation which it has made of Itself, and doing this within the life pattern of incarnate third-density beings who have prepared this place within their life patterns and, thus, not only receive that which was sought, but become that which was sought.

May we answer you further, my sister?

S: Yeah. I’m not sure if you answered it or not, but I don’t think you did. What I was trying perhaps to get at is, can, by consciousness which is on one path that I am aware of and the troubles in the life that I am going through now, and the joys and sorrows that I am consciously aware, and I’m consciously aware of the lessons to be learned and the karma to undo and all of that on one level … I also feel that there is another, at least one other part of me that is also on a different spiritual path, moving together or simultaneously with this other outer spiritual path that I’m doing here. And if that is going on at least on two different levels, and that they’re learning two different lessons or levels of lessons, could there be more, or am I confusing that, and I shouldn’t even be thinking about the two different levels? Now I only get very brief glimpses of this other level which is the only reason that I’m bring it up.

I am Latwii and, hopefully, we are more aware of your query at this time and shall attempt responses. We may affirm that for each seeker there are truly two levels of seeking. One is that which you have described as the conscious seeking during the incarnation. The other level is the level which more nearly approaches that which may be called the metaphysical truth. That level of being and seeking is what might be called the pre-incarnative choice. The entity before incarnating, having made contact with the higher self, and with the aid of those guides and presences which have been called to the entity in service, sets out a plan for the incarnation, a blueprint, shall we say. We, for want of a better term, shall call this plan the pursuit of truth, and it is set forth in clear terms yet with general guidelines for accomplishment.

Then during the incarnation, as the entity begins to awaken to its pre-incarnatively chosen plan, glimpses of this plan will become apparent as the entity, indeed, pursues that plan, both upon an unconscious and upon a conscious level. Whether the pursuit of the plan is unconscious or conscious, it is imperfectly perceived. Of course, as the journey of the seeker becomes more and more a conscious portion of the incarnation, the perception becomes clearer, yet in our previous response we intended to state that no matter how clearly the conscious mind is able to perceive the plan for the incarnation, it is the nature of your illusion that such a plan is never purely perceived. It is not clearly delineated for the conscious mind, but through the unconscious sets a tone and, shall we say, haunts rather than explicates itself.

May we answer further, my sister?

S: No, that’s fine.

Latwii: We thank you, my sister, for your most thoughtful query. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: Yes. Perhaps I’m just being dense, but I’d like to follow up S’s first question. She was asking what the purpose was of the constant stumbling blocks you run into when you … people even want perhaps to know about what you’re studying, or how you feel, and yet stumbling blocks do arise, and misunderstandings arise, and sometimes they seem overwhelming. What I was wondering was, I understand the virtue of this is to the person that’s trying to be of service, but to the person who is listening and discovering the stumbling block, what is the gift which is given by this stumbling block?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We might suggest that the gift of such a stumbling block to the one listening to the seeker is to awaken the ability to question that which is given from any source and to awaken the ability to seek for the self all answers and to, shall we say, develop the ability to filter from any resource any information which is given.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Just for the heck of it, how would you like to respond to accusations that we get about every once, six months, twice a year, maybe, that we are messengers of Satan and that you are a demonic being? All of you, of course.

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Our response to such a statement would be to recognize the one Creator which speaks and to suggest that such an entity has discovered that which we wish to share is not appropriate for that entity’s path of seeking and has so responded as a means of describing not only to others but to the self that another path would be more appropriate than to give any value to information which we might share, or to give any value to the possibility of information being shared by such entities in such a manner. It is the right and privilege of each seeker to choose its own path and it is, indeed, the duty of each to do so whether it is done with grace or clumsily, it is yet the one Creator which finds its own expression in its own way and time.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Why are you such a threat to people such as the Christian fundamentalists that are generally the ones who would say that?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. First, we may state that we are truly no threat to any. But there are those whose minds are configured in such and such a manner to whom we may seem a threat by their own thinking. As the viewpoint is widened, and as Love is seen in those places and beings in which it was not previously seen, there is less and less seen to be a threat, until finally, all is seen as one Being, full of Love, and that Being is not only the self and not only a Creator, which exists outside the self, but is all things, all thoughts, all experience. Thus, each seeker begins with a narrow point of view and travels the path of truth which then allows the experiences that will aid the seeker in widening the point of view and the point of Love.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yet, you, yourselves have cautioned us frequently to tune so that we might get a carefully tuned positive love-oriented, service-to-others-oriented message. Is there a point in the development towards the final density and reunion with the Creator at which negative channeling and positive channeling or service-to-self and service-to-others channeling are heard with equal joy?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. This is, indeed, correct, my sister. At some level of each entity’s being this is possible. Yet within your illusion, you move in darkness and in a manner which requires the careful choosing of polarity, shall we say. For in order to do work of a spiritual nature, the battery of the seeker must be polarized as purely as possible. This polarization process proceeds for much of what you call time through many experiences. And as the seeking becomes more and more refined, the seeker in the positive polarity is able to appreciate more and more the essence of the one Creator which resides in all things, including those entities who have chosen to express the negative polarity of the one infinite Creator. Such a positive entity with this ability to appreciate the one Creator in all is an entity which has refined the process of seeking to a degree where all is seen as one; all is seen as the one infinite Creator, and there is no polarity at this point.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: I take it that’s quite a ways down the road?

I am Latwii, and we would agree, my sister, that for the seeker of truth in the positive sense this is quite a lengthy journey and reaches its culmination, shall we say, at the mid-sixth density level, at which time for any entity wishing to continue the process of evolution, it is necessary to see all as the one Creator. Yet it is possible from time to time on this journey for any entity to purify its own thinking that it is able to experience the unity of all the creation for briefer moments.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, just an observation that that sounds in some ways like risky business.

I am Latwii, and in one sense, my sister, we would agree. Each seeker of truth finds the path laid before it in a manner which leads inevitably to the one Creator. For in each moment the one Creator is all that is. Yet as the one Creator seeks to know Itself and has portioned Itself throughout the one creation in the positive and negative senses, those entities who travel this path of evolution will find that path, though inevitably leading to the one Creator, can be a path which has many surprises for those whose step is not sure and whose attention has been diverted for the moment. And it may be necessary from time to time for the seeker to learn lessons which may be described as difficult. Yet each lesson teaches Love, Wisdom, and unity for those who are alert to the possibilities within difficulty.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

S: I have one. And I should know the answer, but I don’t. If one incarnated on this planet from a different dimension, let’s say a higher one, and if that entity didn’t do any large boo-boos that would keep him in this density and leave him with this social memory complex, upon completion of this service, does an entity go back to his own social memory complex and kind of jump in where he left off, or if he has made great progress in the third density, can he shoot ahead out of his social memory complex into another one, say on a different dimension, if he came from the fourth dimension, did good work, could he shoot ahead to the fifth, or does he jump back into the evolution of the, or the fourth density he came from?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We must attempt a general response to a query which has a great many possible responses. If an entity from a density which is in advance of this third density illusion incarnates for a certain purpose, the incarnations within this illusion may be expected to continue until that purpose has been fulfilled, whether it takes one or many incarnations. There is also the possibility of revaluation of such purposes between the incarnations within this illusion and at this time, shall we say, it is possible for new services to be added or for modifications to be made upon the service which was originally chosen. If an entity is successful in providing the service and learning the lessons which were set before the incarnation or incarnations, it is most usually the case for such a positively polarized entity to remain with the social memory complex, as you have called, that it originally began with. For it is not the nature of a positively polarized entity wishing to be of service to leave that group with which it has provided services for great portions of what you call time and experience. It is more likely that such an entity would use those increased abilities gained in the, shall we say, successful incarnation to advance the social memory complex as a whole rather than to take the fruits of his labor and go its, shall we say, merry way.

May we answer further, my sister?

S: No, that was fine. Thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you once again, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we thank each within this group for providing those queries and energies which allow us to provide our humble service to each and to the one Creator. We shall follow our brothers and sisters of Hatonn with the same injunction, that whatever message and words that we have provided which you find to be of service, we offer in joy and thanksgiving. Whatever words may not be helpful at this time, we suggest that you leave behind with no thought or regret. That which we have to offer, we offer as our opinions and as our gift with no expectations that what we say shall carry any weight. We speak to the one Creator in each which knows all that can be known and is all that can be. And it is our great honor and privilege to speak with the one Creator gathered this evening in this place. We thank each for allowing us this great privilege. We shall leave you now, it would seem, though in truth we are with you always and at your request shall be most happy to join your meditations. We are those of Latwii. We leave you now, my friends, in Love and Light. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning I am beginning to work with a new book by Joel Goldsmith called, The Thunder of Silence. The first quote is: “Revelation always comes as somewhat of a shock, not only to the person who receives the revelation, but also to those with whom it is shared. It is the nature of revelation to be shocking and startling because when it hits up against our cherished beliefs, we become conscious of the degree to which our minds have been conditioned by the opinions and theories current in human thinking, and we suddenly realize the extent of our unenlightenment.

It is not long ago that the majority of people lived a wholly materialistic life, believing that the only real things in life were the material ones, and the only power a physical power. Into that world was introduced the idea of there is a world of mind and mind-power, and this so permeated consciousness that the focus of attention was shifted from the material to the mental.

Had it not been for revelation, I, too, would have lived out my life in this world of mind, never realizing that the world of mind-power is as illusory as that of material power, but one day a message came to me that mind is not power, that thought is not power. This shocked me, steeped as I had been in the teaching that “right thinking” could solve all my problems.

There were many unfoldments following that one, and now after several years of becoming accustomed to these startling revelations and of giving the message time to permeate consciousness, it is being given to the public in this book where you will read something which may sound as familiar to you that your immeditate response may be, “Everybody knows this”; but I can assure you that if people did, they would all be dedicated Souls on the spiritual path. Insofar as I have observed from my study of the spiritual literature of the world the truth stated in this book has never been fully revealed although it constitutes the absolute basis for true spiritual living.

Before you read any further let me assure you that I have no interest whatsoever in establishing a new religion or a new religious teaching, or in setting up any person or groups of people to be obeyed whose dictates and opinions  are in any way considered binding, final, or infallible. I have no intention or desire to leave behind me any kind of religious organization, anything that anyone can join, promote, publicize, or use for personal profit, or even anything that anyone can feel they can rely upon for their salvation. If there is anything that I would like most of all to do in my span of life on Earth, it is to remove from people all those props or crutches upon which they have relied.

The purpose of this book is not to put you in bondage to any person or organization. Rather is its purpose to set you free from “man, whose breath is in his nostrils,” free to unite with all those who are on the same spiritual path, free to share with those who are seeking the spiritual way, but in bondage to nobody, belonging to nobody owing “no person anything but to love one another.” That is the real freedom, and nothing less than freedom can house God.

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”—that is where liberty is; that is where real freedom is, where strength is. The only strength there is is in union with God, and that is an infinity of strength. Union of the human variety changes with the changing and unstable world. If we have learned nothing else through these centuries of wars, we have learned how fleeting is power. In all the covenants that have been made—all the treaties and other international agreements—there has been no lasting strength.”

This afternoon I went outside with the hope of solving a problem with my fishpond that has happened twice in the last few days. The fountain has gone down from its usual height of about three feet, and about 150 gallons of water has, somehow, disappeared from the fishpond without leaving any trace outside of the fishpond. So, the only thing that I could do was what I have done before, and that was to use the garden hose to clean the three filters within the schemer. Then I pumped out another 150 gallons of water so that the height of the pond was only one foot. As the water was pumping out, I put netting over the Solomon’s Seal Flowers. I secured the netting on six plastic rods. Then as the pond was refilling, I took my speedwalk. When I got home the pond was still not full of water, so I continued working on a new Camelot Journal entry. After about 15 minutes I went back outside, and the pond was full of water. Then I turned on the pump, and the fountain was as high as it could go without splashing out of the fishpond. Then I threw three cups of AquaSafe into the pond to neutralize the chlorine.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 22

Your Inner And Outer Universe

I am the Spirit of the living Christ. I greet you in the name of Jesus the Christ, in the full consciousness of divine Love.

We ask you to consider your environment at this moment. Each of the stars in your night sky careens in perfect balance along its cosmic track and about your sun your planet travels in that self-same regularity, all elements harmonizing into the divine plan which affords opportunity that spiritual consciousness may grow in you.

Contemplate, within, that universe of cells which makes up each organ and member of your physical body. Know and feel the utter harmony and regularity of those infinitesimal galaxies as in their whirling they create bases for that energy field which you experience as a living body.

Is any member or organ of that body seemingly out of harmony? If so, allow the spirit to offer instruction as, in your knowing and inner faith, in a deep way, you speak to your own body, telling it of the wonder and perfection of the creation of the Father.

Each of you has within you the means whereby to call bodily, mental, emotional, and spiritual harmony to you. If such be your need this day, do so and be merry, resting in the vibrant peace of the Father.

We leave you in that peace, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn and Latwii channelings come from July 19, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn. It is my privilege and my blessing to share your consciousness with ours. Truly, although we come to serve, we find ourselves served ten times over by the beauty of the vibrations, the vitality and sharp peaks and valleys of your existences. We who refine our choice have a great deal of intensity to our existence and have much to tell of our journey, but those who make the choice at this time, as you would call it, have a much more heightened experience, a much sharper illusion. Perhaps it is our way of saying we enjoy memories of the good old days, when the good old days were perhaps not quite as easy as we remember. Perhaps each of you would assert that this is true. The illusion that you experience is not easy, though we remember it with great affection. We have made our choice, and you are making yours.

This evening, we would speak of a portion of information about the one original Thought, which is Love, and your relationship to it that is called gratitude. It has much been studied within the distortions you may call Christian, and we find within this instrument’s mind a great familiarity with the story called the prodigal son. In this parable the teacher known as Jesus described a situation where an unruly and wild young heir to a great fortune demanded his fortune before the death of his father, while his patient and kindly brother demanded nothing but remained in his father’s house. The prodigal son took all that he now possessed and squandered it foolishly and quickly, and one day found him eating the same food that he brought to the swine. He thought to himself, “How much better I would have it if I were even a slave in my father’s house. I shall be go back and ask to be taken on as a slave.” And he walked through several countries until he came again unto his father’s house. His father, seeing him afar off, rejoiced and made ready a grand celebration. The patient, kindly brother who had never left home was upset, for he had never had such a party given to him and he had served his father throughout many years.

[The telephone rings.]

We shall pause.

[Pause]

(Carla channeling)

I am again with this instrument. I am Hatonn. We thank you for pausing with us. We shall continue in Love and in Light. The good son said to his father, “Why, you have never given me such a wonderful party, why is that?” And the father said, “Why son, you have always been here with me, and everything I have is yours. But your brother was lost, and now he is found; he was dead and now he is alive.”

Let us examine this parable, my friends, for gratitude is not what many find it easy to define. Spiritual gratitude is difficult. However, it is one of the linchpins on which spiritual development rests. The prodigal son was not grateful to his father, either when he left or when he returned. He was in the first instance arrogant, and in the second unknowing of what was about to occur. He had, however, given all hopes up of ever being a member of a family to which he had once belonged. The son who had always been with the father and who shared all that was the father’s knew no gratitude either at his father’s attitude or at the return of his brother, for he was jealous and wanted more than was his share, more than his father could give. The father alone was filled with gratitude because of a son that had betrayed him and squandered his inheritance. This same father could just as easily have been outraged to see such a foolish son returning. The words could have been hard and bitter. “Go away,” he could have said, “Go away, you are no longer my son, and what I owe you I have given you.” Yet, to the father the idea of just portions was foreign. The father gave all that he had and then found more to give, grateful simply for the sight of that which he had nurtured, that which was in his keeping.

In this session Hatonn spoke about the Parable of the Prodigal Son. They began by saying we would speak of a portion of information about the one original Thought, which is Love, and your relationship to it that is called gratitude, and it has been studied within Christianity, and we find within Carla’s mind  familiarity with the story called the prodigal son, for in this parable Jesus described a situation where an unruly young heir to a great fortune demanded his fortune before the death of his father, while his kindly brother demanded nothing but remained in his father’s house, so the prodigal son took all that he now possessed and squandered it foolishly and quickly, and one day found him eating the same food that he brought to the swine, and he thought to himself, “How much better I would have it if I were even a slave in my father’s house. I shall be go back and ask to be taken on as a slave,” and he walked through several countries until he came to his father’s house, for his father, seeing him afar off, rejoiced and made ready a grand celebration, but the kindly brother who had never left home was upset, for he had never had such a party given to him, and he had served his father throughout many years, so the good son said to his father, “Why, you have never given me such a wonderful party, why is that?” And the father said, “Why son, you have always been here with me, and everything I have is yours, but your brother was lost, and now he is found; he was dead and now he is alive.” Hatonn went on to say let us examine this parable, for gratitude is easy to define because spiritual gratitude is difficult, but it is one of the linchpins on which spiritual development rests, so the prodigal son was not grateful to his father, either when he left or when he returned, for he was in the first instance arrogant, and in the second unknowing of what was about to occur, so he had given all hope up of ever being a member of the family to which he had once belonged, but the son who had always been with the father, and who shared all that was the father’s, knew no gratitude either at his father’s attitude or at the return of his brother, for he was jealous and wanted more than was his share, more than his father could give, so the father alone was filled with gratitude because of a son that had betrayed him and squandered his inheritance, but this father could have been outraged to see such a foolish son returning, and his words could have been hard and bitter: “Go away, you are no longer my son, and what I owe you I have given you,” yet to the father the idea of just portions was foreign, for the father gave all that he had and then found more to give, grateful for the sight of that which he had nurtured. On September 22, 2009, Q’uo spoke of the nature of gratitude:

Gratitude is, indeed, a spiritual principle, my brother. The energy of gratitude contains a world of wisdom and compassion. For one is gratified not only because of the good things, so called, not only the sunny days, but the rainy days, the stormy days, the tsunami. All weathers whatsoever, all, are occasions for gratitude. Therefore, this practice is of a very high order of excellence, and we commend you, my brother, for working with this principle in humility and in joy.

Within this illusion it is difficult to know how one may see praise in many, many situations. Being grateful for the experience which may just as well hurt as heal is inestimably difficult, and yet if there is gratitude in sufficient amount, gratitude for the challenge, gratitude for the prodigal son offering you that challenge, gratitude for the infinity of Love which is your birthright and which manifested through you may be all in all. This gratitude homes the shepherd, the father, the nurturer, in so that all moments eventually ring with praise, and the illusion finally begins to lift. You will notice that the father in this parable saw that for which he was grateful, that for which he could have been distressed, a far way away. His gratitude stepped into a void that would only be filled when the son showed his gratitude for being again acceptable by his family. There are seldom moments within third-density experience when that gratitude which is spiritually based may come easily and after something is accomplished. Spiritually or metaphysically speaking, gratitude calls to itself, that is, the gratitude comes within the void of unknowing. The fatted calf is killed before the prodigal son reaches home, before the nature of this unexpected return is known.

How many experiences, my friends, partake in some way of this vulnerability. Something occurs to you. It, given the nature of your illusion, has a tendency to be more painful than pleasurable, for that is the nature of your experiences. Good experiences and bad experiences there are, all seen through the subjective eye, and yet because of the desolation and confusion of many, far more negative thoughts invite their reflection than positive, and thus the illusion often seems to be full of discord and strife. There is then the chance to be grateful—to be grateful, to give thanks, to shout aloud with praise at nothing, for what seems to be real is disease, disharmony, discomfort or despair. As you express thanks, so the seed will be sown. To whom it manifests is always unknown. Your seed may be sown for another or for yourself. Planting has little to do with harvest. However, if you can be thankful for the simple gift of consciousness, if no more than that, if you can be quiet and peaceful in the face of difficulty, if your heart may shout with joy and ecstasy in the face of discomfort, then that which you manifest to the universe shall be that Light, that manifestation of the one original Thought in your own unique expression that brings not just to you, but to those who surround you a reflecting manifestation of thankfulness and gratitude.

Hatonn continued by saying within this illusion it is difficult to know how one may see praise in many situations, for being grateful for the experience which may hurt or heal is difficult, yet if there is gratitude for the prodigal son offering you that challenge and gratitude for the infinity of Love which is your birthright, and which manifested through you may be all in all, for this gratitude homes the shepherd and the father, so that all moments ring with praise, and the illusion begins to lift, and you will notice that the father in this parable saw that for which he was grateful, or that for which he could have been distressed, so his gratitude stepped into a void that would only be filled when the son showed his gratitude for again being acceptable by his family, but there are seldom moments within third-density experience when gratitude, which is spiritually based, may come easily after something is accomplished, yet spiritually speaking gratitude comes within the void of unknowing, and the fatted calf is killed before the prodigal son reaches home, before the nature of this unexpected return is known. Hatonn went on to say something occurs to you, and it has a tendency to be more painful than pleasurable, for that is the nature of your experiences since there are good experiences and bad experiences, and all are seen through the subjective eye, yet because of the confusion of many, more negative thoughts invite their reflection than positive, and the illusion seems to be full of strife, so there is the chance to be grateful, to give thanks for what seems to be real is disharmony and despair, for as you express thanks, so the seed will be sown, but to whom it manifests is always unknown, for your seed may be sown for another or for yourself, but planting has little to do with harvest, but if you can be thankful for the gift of consciousness, and if you can be peaceful in the face of difficulty, if your heart may shout with joy and ecstasy in the face of discomfort, then that which you manifest to the universe shall be that Light, that manifestation of the one original Thought in your unique expression that brings not just to you, but to those who surround you a reflecting manifestation of and gratitude. On November 19, 1997, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the gift of consciousness:

When one considers what one is to do with one’s gifts, we would encourage each seeker to contemplate first the greatest gift, that gift of consciousness. There are duties and responsibilities that go hand in hand with the awakening of awareness of one’s spiritual identity. One responsibility is to remember who you are, and what you are. For it is that essence that you came primarily to offer as your service. As each comprehends these words, each is fulfilling her major, primary service. For the primary service is to share sacrificially the essential vibrations of self with the planet that you call Earth in order that the planetary consciousness may be lightened at this critical time, metaphysically speaking, in Earth’s history. So, no matter what occurs within the outer world, as the one known as C observed, no matter whether one develops a new physics or works and retires, the primary service is performed as you breathe in and out, and as you are most deeply and truly yourself.

One thought as we leave this instrument. We do not intend in any way to describe the nature of the Creator by speaking of this parable. We are not attempting to describe metaphysical geometry in which the Creator has certain characteristics. We would not be so bold, nor would we tamper with your own study. We use words for the Creator and in close association with the Creator. Those words are: Love, the original Thought, Light, oneness, you, I. These are not characteristics, as the Creator is far more deeply personal than to have a personality. The technique of gratitude, rather, is much like that archetype which shows a fool or a wise man stepping off into space. Give thanks, my friends, not for what you see, not for the kindliness of the Creator, not for the excellence of your circumstance, but, rather, give thanks because you are able to give thanks, because you live, and breathe, and think. You define the nature of your being.

Hatonn concluded by saying we do not intend to describe the nature of the Creator by speaking of this parable, for we are not attempting to describe metaphysical geometry in which the Creator has certain characteristics, so we would not be so bold, nor would we tamper with your own study, for we use words for the Creator, and those words are: Love, Light, oneness, you, and I, but these are not characteristics, as the Creator is more deeply personal than to have a personality, for the technique of gratitude is much like that archetype which shows a fool or a wise man stepping off into space, so give thanks, not for the kindliness of the Creator, but give thanks because you are able to give thanks, because you live, breathe, think, and you define the nature of your being. On June 27, 1993, Q’uo described the nature of Love:

The Creator created a great original Expression, or Thought. This we have called the Logos or Love. This principle, this Love, created all that there is by the quantizing articulation of Light. Yet all that is created is of the nature of its parent source, which is Love. The reason for offering Love, appreciation, a blessing and thanksgiving to the infinite One is that the entity within incarnation is attempting to form its vibratory frequency more and more like that of the vibrational frequency of the one great original Thought, which is Love. The closer the seeker comes to matching that vibratory frequency, the more that entity will be perceived as offering praise and thanksgiving. This is true far beneath any articulation of words or even what you consider thoughts. Rather, it is in the nature of the way creation is built. That is, the original Thought expresses in Love, thanks, blessing, praise, and rejoicing. Thusly, it is not a Creator hungry for praise and thanks that requires homage of Its worshippers, but rather it is Love, it is reflected in Love, and in that infinite reflection lies truth.

We are with you, my friends, and of course at any time you may ask us to be with you mentally during meditation we shall be glad to be there as silent partner to aid your contemplative and quiet moment. I am Hatonn. I leave you in all that there is, the Love and the Light of the original infinite Creator. Adonai.  Adonai, my friends.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. It is our privilege and our pleasure to once again be asked to join your group. We thank you, as always, for inviting our humble service which we attempt to provide by means of answering those concerns that you bring with you. May we then ask for the first query at this time?

Carla: I’m really glad to hear your voice, Latwii, but I don’t have any questions.

I am Latwii, and, my sister, we are filled with joy to hear your voice as well, and to feel the vibrations of this group. We feel that there are those concerns that are present, and if they can be formed into words at this time, we would be happy to attempt to reply. Is there a query at this time?

Carla: I will ask for a friend of mine. It’s a question in general, for I’m sure there are many people that share his difficulties. How may he work to remove his difficulties, and achieve a proper spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical balance?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We find that this query is of a general nature, and has not those specific qualities which would infringe upon the free will, thus we may attempt an answer and shall do our best. Each seeker within your illusion moves within that which might be called the darkness. Nothing is known except perhaps that the seeker does exist and move within certain boundaries, and these boundaries seem quite real. They are that which the seeker has made familiar through the thinking and the experience which are attempts to reflect the true heart of being, and to make the journey known in a conscious fashion. These boundaries serve to focus the seeker for a portion of the journey, and when they have served their purpose there is the opportunity to release the boundaries, to bid farewell to that which has been familiar to the seeker.

Many of your people call this transformation, and some such changing of the guard, shall we say, may be called initiation as well, for the old is given away and the new is born. These are new boundaries, my sister, but boundaries which are somewhat widened and offer more freedom. Yet, with the new-found freedom comes the first fear of taking new steps, for that which is new is not known nor is it familiar, yet the seeker, full of the desire to move onward, will take that first step as the fool into space, and with faith and will exercised to the fullest ability will find firm ground on which to step, for that ground shall be a new portion of the seeker, and shall be that which awaits the formation first in, shall we say, desire or mind. The step is thought, and then it is taken, and it is taken because it is thought.

Carla asked: “I will ask for a friend of mine. It’s a question in general, for I’m sure there are many people that share his difficulties. How may he work to remove his difficulties, and achieve a proper spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical balance?” Latwii began by saying we find that this query is of a general nature, and has not those specific qualities which would infringe upon free will, thus we may attempt an answer, so each seeker within your illusion moves within that which is darkness, and nothing is known except that the seeker exists and moves within certain boundaries, and these boundaries seem real, for they are that which the seeker has made familiar through the thinking and the experience which are attempts to reflect the true heart of being, and to make the journey known in a conscious fashion since these boundaries serve to focus the seeker for a portion of the journey, and when they have served their purpose there is the opportunity to release the boundaries, to bid farewell to that which has been familiar to the seeker. Now Latwii said many of your people call this transformation, and some call it initiation, for the old is given away, and the new is born, so these are new boundaries, but boundaries which are widened and offer more freedom, yet with the new-found freedom comes the first fear of taking new steps, for that which is new is not known, nor is it familiar, yet the seeker will take that first step as the fool into space, and with faith and will exercised to the fullest ability will find firm ground on which to step, for that ground shall be a new portion of the seeker, and it shall be that which awaits the formation first in mind, so the step is thought, and then it is taken, and it is taken because it is thought. In 57.24, Ra described the nature of initiation:

However, you are aware of the concept of initiation and realize that it demands the centering of the being upon the seeking of the Creator. We have hoped to balance this understanding by enunciating the Law of One, that is, that all things are One Creator. Thus seeking the Creator is done not just in meditation and the work of an adept but in the experiential nexus of each moment.

The initiation of the Queen’s Chamber has to do with the abandoning of self to such desire to know the Creator in full that the purified instreaming Light is drawn in balanced fashion through all energy centers, meeting in indigo and opening the gate to intelligent infinity. Thus, the entity experiences true life or, as your people call it, resurrection.

Thus, the journey continues within new boundaries, and the seeker once again moves forward for a portion of what you call time until those difficulties that are a result of the new bias mount to the point where a threshold of resistance, shall we say, is constructed, thereby providing the opportunity for yet another transformation, as what once was a new field of experience becomes too restrictive and must be replaced and transformed by a larger field of experience. The faith and the will are those tools which propel the seeker through such transformations. The rejoicing at such an opportunity is also a concomitant portion of the seeker’s own creation that is most helpful in this journey, and most especially during such transformations.

Then Latwii said the journey continues within new boundaries, and the seeker once again moves forward for a portion of time until those difficulties that are a result of the new bias mount to the point where a threshold of resistance is constructed, thereby providing the opportunity for another transformation, so what once was a new field of experience becomes too restrictive and must be replaced by a larger field of experience, for faith and will are those tools which propel the seeker through such transformations, and the rejoicing at such an opportunity is also a portion of the seeker’s creation that is helpful in this journey, and most especially during such transformations. On March 7, 2020, Q’uo spoke of how faith and will work together on our spiritual journey:

This faith, then, may also call upon the quality of the will that each seeker has within its being to utilize the perceptions of the day, the catalyst of the experience, the potential within each moment to move forward in growth. This will, then, balances the faith so that there is the opportunity for the seeker to exercise its desire, its will, its potential to realize the qualities of faith that have pointed out the possibilities for growth for each seeker.

Thus, faith and will are the rod and the staff that each seeker carries with it as it moves through this third-density illusion, where the darkness of the illusion hides most of the Creator that is within each moment and each entity, and provides the entity, then, a means by which it may ascertain greater and greater means of moving forward in the process of spiritual growth. Together then, faith and will can utilize any present moment to move forward within the spiritual journey.

May we attempt further response, my sister?

Carla: That was very complete. Thank you. I had a secondary query, and that was, if a person carries confusion of some kind to the point that most people would call delusional to the close of the incarnation, will that person be, shall I say, caught in that confusion as the next incarnation opens?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. Inasmuch as each entity which inhabits your illusion contains a certain amount of confusion, it is necessary upon the cessation of any incarnation for any such confusion or imbalance to go through the process of healing. Therefore, according to the nature and degree of the difficulty or confusion, the entity shall find within itself the need to heal that which was broken, to make clear that which was confused, and to make whole that which was broken. There are many, many individual situations to consider in the general nature of your query when making reference to the needs of the next incarnation. The entity may be ready for that which is called the harvest, and may find that, though confused during the incarnation, was sufficiently polarized to continue to the next level of lesson, and may find a need to include the first portion of studies as that confusion which was carried forth from the previous incarnation. For an entity not able to harvest itself within your third-density illusion, such confusion then might be a portion of its next third-density incarnation lesson.

There are, as you know, a great variety of entities upon your sphere at this time. Many have come from other densities and planetary influences to be of service, and may find that there are certain difficulties and confusions which would necessitate a particular plan of study to be carried forth, perhaps within any number of situations which would perhaps include another third-density incarnational experience or could take forms which are most difficult to describe to you at this time, for to those of other densities there are various means of relieving and healing the distortions accumulated within a third-density incarnation. We apologize for not being able to give a specific answer at this time, but are aware that you recognize the difficulty with the infringement upon free will which is potentially within our response.

May we respond in more detail, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you, Latwii.

I am Latwii, and thank you, as always, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Latwii, and we find that we have exhausted the queries. Though few in number, we find that the focus of each query was sufficiently well tuned to provide information which we hope may be of some aid in your quest for truth. We share with you that same quest, and thank you for allowing us to share what humble opinions we have gathered on our journey with you. We shall be with each of you upon your request in your meditations, and shall be honored to join your group at your next gathering, should we be so requested. We are those of Latwii, and we leave you now, my friends, rejoicing in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning the quote form The Art of Meditation is: “Wherever there is a realized God-consciousness, it becomes an instrument through which God functions in human consciousness. The activity of the Christ can function through my consciousness reaching and touching yours to illumine, heal, and supply. In the same manner, as you are attuned to the Infinite Invisible in meditation, Christ finds an outlet through your consciousness, touching the lives of others, awakening their consciousness and bringing what the world calls healing to their bodies and affairs. The activity of the Christ, with no human intervention, flows into whatever human consciousness is opening itself to God’s grace.

The day will come when there will be a band, a circle of spiritual wisdom around the entire globe. The fabric of this circle will be formed throughout the world by the realized Christ-consciousness of teachers and students. When this circle has been developed sufficiently, then everybody who seeks spiritual Light will be able to reach out and touch the realized Christ-consciousness of anyone in this band of illumined Souls. Then the world will be uplifted, not one by one, but by the millions. When this consciousness is released through individual realization in meditation and communion, it can no longer be localized in either time or space, and anyone in the world who touches it can attain it in some measure.

Illumination dissolves all material ties and binds people together with the golden chains of spiritual understanding: it acknowledges only the leadership of the Christ; it has no ritual or rule but the divine, impersonal, universal Love; no other worship than the inner Flame that is ever lit at the shrine of Spirit. This union is the free state of spiritual brotherhood. The only restraint is the discipline of Soul, therefore we know liberty without license; we are a united universe without physical limits; a divine service to God without ceremony or creed. The illumined walk without fear—by Grace.”

I would like to make a comment on this ending quote of Joel Goldsmith’s book seeming to be a miracle that our current world situation does not give much possibility of happening. Ra made a similar statement in 65.12:

We may note at this point while you ponder the possibility/probability vortices that although you have many, many items which cause distress and thus offer seeking and service opportunities, there is always one container in that store of peace, Love, Light, and joy. This vortex may be very small, but to turn one’s back upon it is to forget the infinite possibilities of the present moment. Could your planet polarize towards harmony in one fine, strong moment of inspiration? Yes, my friends. It is not probable; but it is ever possible.

Later this morning I went outside and cut netting to put on plastic rods to cover Hosta sprouts in three areas of my back yard to protect them from the deer

This afternoon I went over to southern Indiana to visit my friend who lives in a care home in New Albany. Before I got there, I released a opossum in a rural area that I caught in my Hava-Hart trap this morning because it was eating the cat food on my front porch that is meant for my feral cat, Faithful. Then I visited Connie for about an hour which started with sharing a banana and some treats with her. Then I showed her some pictures and videos of my new kitten, Mystical Joy, and they made us both laugh. Then I read her some quotes from Carla’s Autobiography, and we talked about the ones that inspired her. Then I read some quotes from her book about women who have been declared to be saints over the last few hundred years. We ended our visit with our usual meditation time. Then I gave her a hug, and said goodbye, told her that I loved her, and that I would see her again next month.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 21

The Building Block Of Faith

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of Love divine, unending and eternal.

How brave an instrument who admits it needs the practice! How brave any seeking entity who admits the need for constant improvement, for constant mindfulness, and for constant seeking.

How firm the faith of one who knows that the gift of the Spirit of Jesus the Christ is given to those who are humble as dust before it. Such humility will not be scattered to the winds. Such humility cannot be trampled upon. Such humility is the building block of faith. Such determination is the foundation of will.

Let each day be a day in which you are prostrate before the infinite Love of Jesus the Christ. For it was in humility to the physical death that Jesus the Christ expressed Love, not in bragging or boasting but in opening the self completely to the will of the one God of all.

Open yourself to that will. Be humble as dust before it. Yet know that you carry it within you, if you are mindful of it.

Let your Light shine through your humility; through your humanity; through the ashes of the life of the mundane world. Heaven may shine through your eyes! The kingdom is that near!

Yet the kingdom shall never shine through the eyes of one who boasts that he knows of the kingdom and has no more to learn. Be humble and faithful, and bow before the Lord God, that, as you rise, you may shine with the eternal Light of unity, Love and peace. 

We leave you in the eternal Love and peace of Jesus the Christ, now and forever. May you be saved by an awareness of this holy Love. Peace be with you. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Hatonn and Latwii channelings for this session come from July 22, 1984:

(Carla channeling)

I am Hatonn, and I greet you in the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator. We apologize for the delay, but there is one among you who must first make up the mind as to whether the channeling was appropriate at this time. We cannot go where we do not feel that we are called freely, as you know. Therefore, we would gladly wait any amount of your time, and thank you greatly for the pleasure and privilege of speaking with you. Although our thoughts are poor, our hearts are full of gratitude. This instrument is being given a fairly complex concept. However, we wish to make a point this evening which seems to be driven at better this way than any other.

There is a relationship between you and the infinite Creator. This is one of the most general affirmations upon your sphere, spiritually speaking. The only entities who would disagree with this statement are those who believe that there is no Creator, and, therefore, there is no possible relationship. Your philosophers and theologians have said many things about the relationship of humans to the Creator. We would suggest that you examine what occurs when two bluebirds mate. Is not that tiny entity which breaks through the egg a bluebird? Just so, when an acorn falls from an oak tree and germinates, in good time does not the oak tree duplicate itself so that yet another beautiful oak will wave its leafy fingers through the winds. And so, when among your people those who are mated have children, is it not common to say, “Oh, this child takes after the mother and this after the father”? The relationship in all cases is an identity within which uniqueness of each entity is preserved.

And now we have settled your humanity, we shall go on to your relationship with the Creator. There is much to learn from these examples. You may well think of yourselves as children of the Creator, and yet, how are you children of the Creator? Where is your child nature, and what birth have you to show? This is an area which bristles with trouble, my friends, because it is so simple and so straightforward that mankind finds it almost impossible to accept. When we look at the bluebird, we see both the bluebird and the ideal of the bluebird. When we see one acorn, we know that we have seen all acorns in miniature. We trust the identity to continue throughout the species. And we know somehow that the idea and the ideal existed in order to form the first oak tree, the first bluebird, and, for that matter, the first human entity.

In this session Hatonn spoke of our relationship to the infinite Creator. They began by saying there is a relationship between you and the infinite Creator, and this is a general affirmation upon your sphere, spiritually speaking, but the only entities who would disagree with this statement are those who believe that there is no Creator, and there is no possible relationship, for your philosophers and theologians have said many things about the relationship of humans to the Creator, so we would suggest that you examine what occurs when an acorn falls from an oak tree and germinates, for in good time does not the oak tree duplicate itself so that yet another beautiful oak will wave its leafy fingers through the winds, and when those of your people who are mated have children, is it not common to say, “Oh, this child takes after the mother and this child after the father”? Then Hatonn said relationship in all cases is an identity within which uniqueness of each entity is preserved. Hatonn went on to say now we have described your humanity, we shall go on to your relationship with the Creator, for there is much to learn from these examples, and you may well think of yourselves as children of the Creator, yet: “How are you children of the Creator? Where is your child nature, and what birth have you to show?” Then Hatonn said this is an area which bristles with trouble because it is so simple that mankind finds it almost impossible to accept, and when we see one acorn, we know that we have seen all acorns in miniature, so we trust the identity to continue throughout the species, and we know somehow that the idea and the ideal existed in order to form the first oak tree, and the first human entity. On May 12, 1985, Latwii spoke of the ideal way of living our incarnation:

As you look upon your own incarnational pattern of lessons and services, you will see that you have before you a pattern of experience which has the desired result in its foundation to express Love, to express and experience acceptance, to express and experience forgiveness, and so forth with the various characteristics of that energy known as Love. In any such experience, whether it be with the children of whom you speak, with your friends, with acquaintances, or with strangers, you have the ideal constructed within your inner mind in a fashion which is to the best of your ability whole and perfect. To translate this construction of the ideal into the daily experience and those testings of the ideal we have called the firing line or the heat of the battle, is the challenge before you.

The source of these ideas and ideals is the Creator of them, and there is a portion of all things that does not come into manifestation in flesh, or feather, or leaf, but, rather, stays with the Creator, so that that which the Creator has made is in the Creator and the Creator in that which the Creator has made. Therefore, you carry with you an identity with the Creator which is most usually not carried into manifestation. Nevertheless, it is within you, and the relationship is identity. You are the Creator, and the Creator is you. You are also children of the Creator in that you were enabled to begin your journey of consciousness by the Creator and the one original Thought, which is Love.

If then you are children of Love, and, indeed, Love itself, since this is an acceptable alternative term for the Creator, why cannot your gestures and your beings manifest Love? Why is this not the natural? You are identical with the Creator. Why does this nature not prevail? My friends, that which is dear and rare is treasured because it is seldom seen and difficult to find. For most among your people it is ever difficult to find the Creator within. The day distracts the eye and the mind, and the fingers become busy with petty details. Moment upon moment is lost, and the life wears away, the incarnation coming to a close without the person taking hold of the stream of time and making a conscious effort to manifest Love and to express that identity with the Creator. It is for this reason that meditation is so greatly recommended, more especially meditation upon a daily basis, for if you have the habit of silence within, you will the better listen to what one of your holy works has called the still, small voice. The thunder of daily business can drown that still, small voice out very easily if the will of the seeker is not constantly returning to the search for the identity with Love which is the true identity of each and which is all that shall outlast the grave.

Hatonn said that the source of these ideals is the Creator of them, and there is a portion of all things that does not come into manifestation in flesh, or feather, or leaf, but it stays with the Creator, so that which the Creator has made is in the Creator, and the Creator is in that which the Creator has made, and you carry an identity with the Creator which is usually not carried into manifestation, but it is within you, and the relationship is identity, for you are the Creator, and the Creator is you, and you are also children of the Creator in that you were enabled to begin your journey of consciousness by the Creator and the one original Thought, which is Love. Hatonn went on to say you are children of Love itself, since this is an acceptable alternative term for the Creator: “Why cannot your gestures and your beings manifest Love? Why is this not the natural way? You are identical with the Creator. Why does this nature not prevail?” Now Hatonn said that which is dear is treasured because it is difficult to find, for most among your people it is ever difficult to find the Creator within since the day distracts the eye and the mind, and the fingers become busy with petty details, so moments are lost, and the incarnation comes to a close without the person taking hold of the stream of time and making a conscious effort to manifest Love and to express that identity with the Creator, but it is for this reason that meditation is recommended upon a daily basis, for if you have the habit of silence within, you will listen better to what the Bible calls the still, small voice, yet the thunder of daily business can drown that still, small voice out easily if the will of the seeker is not constantly returning to the search for the identity with Love which is the true identity of each and which is all that shall outlast the grave. On September 8, 1996, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the still, small voice:

This is the central question of this meeting, for it has been asked of us when and how to know that still, small voice, and it is this voice that we could suggest that one listen to in order to know those times when it is appropriate to jump, and those times when it is appropriate to wait. Thus, in all situations in which there is doubt it is our recommendation that one practice meditation. Meditate upon the action or inaction, for as long as it is necessary for you to hear that voice and to feel that impulse in one direction or the other. As we stated previously, it may happen in a moment. It may take a great deal of time, and while this process is going on again, we counsel faith that the process itself, and the action itself, and the entire incarnation will unfold as each should, for this is not a universe in which chance plays a significant part.

To meditate often seems rather difficult. We are aware that this is so. However, the intention to meditate, the setting aside of time for that purpose, the action of attempting to meditate, all of these things add up to an increasing awareness of the sanctity that you carry within you, even if you consider that you do not meditate well. It is not important to meditate well. It is important to desire to meditate well and to continually seek the truth in your meditations, so that you are tuned and carefully aimed at assuming your true personality—that is, Love. Each of you seeks and each of the seekings are in some way flawed at times. We ask you, as you go into meditation, to examine that which you seek, for that which you seek you shall find. If you beckon something it shall come to you. You will get what you want. Therefore, be sure you are asking for what you truly want.

Perhaps the greatest disappointment in many incarnations is the realization that one has gotten what one wished, and the harvest is an unhappy one. Wish well and find yourself worthy to continually seek in the direction of that which you desire. Moving into meditation and moving back out can feel like moving in and out of a cleansing waterfall, that which causes health and healing, compassion, forgiveness and understanding. Let these vibrations stream down upon you as a waterfall would. Open yourself after carefully tuning to the benevolent Love and Light of a universe that is one with you. Yes, my friends, each of you is a fallible, foolish human being, as you call yourselves, and in the light of your own judgment, how cruel you are in your judgment of yourselves, my friends. Love does not so cruelly judge. Therefore, surrender yourselves to the influence of Love. Seek your identity. Begin to recognize who you really are.

Hatonn went on to say to meditate often seems difficult, but the intention to meditate and setting aside of time to meditate adds up to an increasing awareness of the sanctity that you carry within you, even if you consider that you do not meditate well, for it is not important to meditate well, but it is important to desire to meditate well and to continually seek the truth in your meditations, so that you are tuned and carefully aimed at assuming your true personality—that is, Love, so each of you seeks that which is in some way flawed, and we ask you, as you go into meditation, to examine that which you seek, for that which you seek you shall find, and if you seek something you will get what you want, so be sure you are asking for what you truly want. Now Hatonn said the greatest disappointment in many incarnations is the realization that one has gotten what one wished, and the harvest is an unhappy one, so wish well and find yourself worthy to continually seek in the direction of that which you desire, for moving into meditation and moving back out can feel like moving in and out of a cleansing waterfall which causes healing, compassion, and forgiveness, so let these vibrations stream down upon you as a waterfall, and open yourself after carefully tuning to the Love and Light of a universe that is one with you, yet each of you is a foolish human being, and in the light of your own judgment, how cruel you are in your judgment of yourselves, but Love does not cruelly judge, so surrender yourselves to the influence of Love, and seek your identity of who you really are. On November 5, 1981, Hatonn described the nature of our identity:

At this time, we feel the need to share with you the thought of your identity. This identity is very easily lost, for you are strangers in a strange land, as this instrument would put it, dealing with many foolish and petty occasions, words, and thoughts generated by yourself for your learning and by those about you for their learning. This is a confusing density, and we make no bones about it. It is a difficult one in which to remember your identity. But there is, shall we say, a Master and you are His children. And the mark within you is that as His children, you are children of Light. And the Light within you marks you as the Creator’s own. No circumstance, no thought, no behavior, no error, no difficulty, no limitation can remove this mark from your very being, and you rest in the arms of the Creator. There is no moment in eternity when this is not so.

We have greatly enjoyed speaking with you but would wish at this time to leave this instrument. We hail and bless all in the joy of oneness, and we leave you in the Love and the Light of our infinite Creator. I am known to you as Hatonn. Adonai. Adonai.

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and I greet you, my friends, in the Love and in the Light of our infinite Creator. We are most happy to be asked to join your group once again and offer our humble service of attempting to answer your queries. May we remind each that our words are but our opinions and our findings which have resulted from our own journey, which we share with you. Take that of value; leave that which has none. May we begin then with the first query?

Carla: Well, I have a question. I’ve often wondered if the Confederation of Planets and angels were two different ways of saying the same thing. Are they?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We blush at so being described but may suggest that, indeed, it is a method of describing those of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Infinite Creator to call them angels as well. The term “angel” or “angelic presence” is a term which is usually reserved for those entities who are of your own planetary influence. This would mean that such an entity would have evolved upon your own planet first and would have achieved those levels of, shall we say, harvestability, and would have chosen to remain with this planetary influence and become that known as an angelic presence, guide, or inner plane teacher which would respond to the call, much as we respond to your call though we are not of your planetary influence. The Confederation of Planets is made up of many entities from many planetary influences including your own, my sister.

May we answer you further?

Carla: Yeah. There aren’t enough people that have been harvested from this density this time around to fill up heaven, as one tends to think of it being, ranks on ranks, and all that. Are some of these holdovers who have decided to go through a whole other octave on the inner plane?

I am Latwii and believe that we grasp the gist of your query. Please query further if we have not. These entities of which we have been speaking, those termed the angel or angelic presence, are those entities which have obtained that level of polarity in service to others which would allow them to proceed forward, shall we say, in their own evolutionary progress if they so choose. It is most usually the case with a positively-polarized entity achieving harvest that the entity will choose to remain with those of its own planetary influence until the cycle of third density has been completed, and those of its kind have been offered the greatest possible opportunity for achieving harvest as well. In some cases, these entities will continue to remain with some portions of the third density of its planet if these entities have not achieved harvest and then remove themselves to another third-density planetary influence for a repetition of those lessons.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Well, that’s what I was driving at, among other things. So, are angels mostly from places like Mars and all different places like that if they were already graduated before they came to this planetary influence?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. And we can assert that this is, indeed, the case with a great portion of those as angelic presences. There are entities which have many planetary influences which have given their populations to your own at the end of their third-density cycle, for their populations were in need of a repetition of that density or grade of experience, and your planetary influence offered that very lesson. Those few who were able to be harvested upon such planets needing a repetition of the cycle have in many cases joined those needing repetition in order to provide whatever assistance is possible in response to a call for such assistance.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: What’s the basic difference between inner planes and outer planes?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. As an entity moves from the, as they have been called, inner plane experiences toward that which is called the outer plane experience, an entity moves from that which might be termed the metaphysical in purity to the physical in purity. This is to say that an entity will be moving from the inner plane of the nonphysical to the outer plane of the physical. The differentiation between these terms and states of being is that of the denseness of Light contained within the inner plane and the denseness of matter and illusion contained in the outer plane.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Then you and angels are both inner plane beings or entities, right?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. For your purposes and according to your perceptions, this is so, yet this is so in a relative manner, for in our own illusion we inhabit a portion of what you may call a higher density, which also has its own so-called outer plane or space/time portion of experience. In your way of perceiving this experience, it would appear that we would be the same as an entity inhabiting the inner planes of your own planetary influence, for both experiences are much more filled with Light than is your own and are much less filled with the manifestation of illusion than is your own.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: Yeah. Angels, then, are third density, able to graduate to fourth density, therefore virtually fourth density. Is there any possibility that angels or angelic presences—I suspect that you must want to say something different because you keep saying “so-called”—can go further than the beginning of fourth density? Is there further learning possible without leaving the inner planes and reincarnating?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister. We have prefaced the term, angel and angelic presence, with “so-called” as a modifier for it is quite a large universe that we inhabit, and which your planet finds itself in as well. There are many learning opportunities available to those so-called angelic presences within your planetary influence, and there are many types of angelic presences as well. We have spoken to the majority, and have not spoken of the greater variety of entities which may be perceived as angelic presences. Some are of what you would call a higher density, shall we say, having come to this planetary influence in response to a specific call. Some are of your own planetary influence and remain in the, shall we say, role of angelic presence for the greater portion of their beingness. Some chose to reincarnate and apply their beingness to a physical incarnation in order to be of more service in that manner. There are, as you see, more types of angelic presences than can be adequately described by your language system and your sense of comprehension and our ability to so describe.

May we answer you further, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

I am Latwii, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: Just one question, which you probably can’t answer. I’ve been having a lot of trouble this week. Do you have any tips?

I am Latwii and am aware of your query, my sister, though you have not spoken it in detail. We can speak in general. To any seeker which feels the difficulty in manifesting those ideals which each seeker holds dear, and by which each seeker attempts to move the self in service to others and along the path of evolution, it is the intention of your being which is of greatest importance as you attempt to be of any service and as you attempt to match the life with the ideal. Each seeker will find the moments of falling short of the ideal, for it is not within the capability of any seeker to match that which is infinite in a finite illusion. It is instead the honor and the duty of each conscious seeker of truth to make whatever effort is possible, to make it with a whole heart, and to accept that which comes from the effort in joy and in thanksgiving for the opportunity which has been met.

Your illusion is one which works quite well, my sister. The purpose of your illusion is to both hide that which is true and reveal enough of that which is true to cause the seeker to move toward that which is true. As you find those times of difficulty in finding and manifesting that which is true in your own life, retire to those places within your being that are silent, gentle, healing, and loving. Whether this be in prayer, meditation, or contemplation, find that place where the One resides. Find that place where you have been before, that place of Love that has no condition, that place of joy at the very opportunity to be where you are and to do what you do, for, indeed, each situation is full of such Love and such joy, for the one Creator resides in full in all at all times, and there is much service to perform, and many lessons to learn in those times of difficulty, these times of testing, that the seeker might then find the greater reserve of strength within its being which it was unaware existed before the seeking and the needing such strength.

Carla asked: “I’ve been having a lot of trouble this week. Do you have any tips?” Latwii replied any seeker which feels the difficulty in manifesting those ideals which each seeker attempts to move the self in service to others it is the intention of your being which is of greatest importance as you attempt to be of service and as you attempt to match the life with the ideal, but each seeker will find moments of falling short of the ideal, for it is not within the capability of any seeker to match that which is infinite in a finite illusion, yet it is the honor and the duty of each conscious seeker of truth to make whatever effort is possible with a whole heart and to accept that which comes from the effort in joy and thanksgiving for the opportunity which has been met. Latwii continued by saying our illusion is one which works well, for the purpose of our illusion is to both hide that which is true and reveal enough of that which is true to cause the seeker to move toward that which is true, so as you find those times of difficulty in finding and manifesting that which is true in your life, retire to those places within your being that are silent, healing, and loving whether this be in prayer, meditation, or contemplation, find that place where the One resides, and find that place where you have been before, that place of Love that has no condition, that place of joy at the opportunity to be where you are and to do what you do, for each situation is full of Love and joy since the Creator resides in full in all at all times, and there is much service to perform, and many lessons to learn in those times of difficulty that the seeker might then find the greater reserve of strength within its being which it was unaware existed before the seeking and the needing such strength. On November 21, 1982, Latwii said that the Creator resides in all things:

Consider that what you seek is a portion of the one original Thought. That Thought is unity. That Thought of the one Creator has allowed each portion of Itself to travel through free will within the creation of the one original Thought. The journey takes many turns. Yet within each moment, Love exists. Within each moment, the Creator resides in full at all times. That this is not recognized does not diminish its truth. Such difficulties provide the stimulus for the inner seeking as the outer world begins to fade, for it becomes apparent to the seeker that Love may best be found within the heart of the being. Love then found there might be radiated, as a beacon shines Light in the darkest portion of the night. Sorrow and suffering then motivate those feeling the suffering to seek more and more within, more and more in that portion of your illusion which Love inhabits purely and always readily available.

What we have taken so long to say, my sister, is that there is great virtue in perseverance, great virtue in the attempt, and great …

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(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and am once again with this instrument. We thank you, my sister, as always. Is there another query at this time?

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I am Latwii, and we are aware that there are yet two or three queries which have not found their final form, and which, therefore, we may have the opportunity of attempting a response to at what you would call a later date. We thank each present for allowing us to join your group this evening. It is always a great honor to join the company of those who so ardently seek the truth of their being and journey. Your journeys are at times quite, quite difficult, for the illusion which you inhabit is a most heavy and dense illusion, where that which is fine and light and true and beautiful is often quite unapparent to those who move within a gross physical existence. Yet we would remind each that the real work and fruit of your labors and journey is stored up within what might be called the metaphysical portion of your existence, and you shall not be directly aware of these fruits for most of your conscious incarnation, yet when the journey in this life is finished, it is with great joy that you will look upon those fruits, and with great amazement recognize the real purpose of the incarnation which has been completed. Rejoice, my friends, and know that each labor, each tear, each agonizing moment produces a fruit that is whole and perfect, sweet and loving, and is a great portion of the one Creator. We thank each of you for every effort which you make as seekers of truth. We are those of Latwii, and we leave you now in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai vasu boragus.

This morning the quote from The Art of Meditation is: “The time has passed for any one individual to set themselves up as the sole representative of the Spirit of God on Earth. Every person must show forth that same Spirit. If this book can bring to a few the experience of the Spirit of the Lord, then they in turn will be able to go out and help others reach this same experience. The Saviour is the Spirit of the Lord—not a man or a woman. The Saviour is the Spirit of the Lord, and the Spirit of the Lord must be realized by you and by me individually.

The most that any spiritual teaching or book can accomplish is to lead the student to the realization that there is a kingdom of God within them and then inspire them with the desire to achieve it. The most that a spiritual teacher can do is to open the consciousness of those individuals who look to them, so that they may attain the realization of the Spirit of the Lord. But one teacher, as we have seen in the case of Jesus Christ, could not do this for the entire world—not even for their own disciples, except for the few who were receptive and responsive. Judas is an example of one who did not respond to the Christ. Only those with a deep spiritual hunger can be lifted by spiritual teachers into the God-experience.

Every mystic throughout the ages has succeeded in opening the consciousness of students to the experience of the Spirit of the Lord. In some cases, hundreds received it through their teacher. But the world went on its merry way to destruction because those who reached this high state of consciousness set up a worship of the teacher rather than a practice of the teaching. Everyone who through this work is touched by the Christ should dedicate themselves to opening the consciousness of others in the same way as has been done for them. This they can do by being a witness to the activity of the Christ in their own consciousness, demonstrating to the world that anyone with sufficient interest and devotion may be led to the same experience”

This morning I went outside and used Huff and Puff to blow leaves and small branches into piles around my yard. Then I put the small branches and leaves into a garbage can. Then I used my seed spreader to spread five bags of grass seed in my front, side, and back yards.

This afternoon I went to my neighbors’ yard across the street and used my hedge clippers to cut their Tall, Striped Grasses down. Then I put the grasses into four garbage cans, and then I put the garbage cans at the end of my driveway. Then I used my large mower, Venus, to mulch the leaves and stray grasses.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

March 20

Run With Love

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full and divine consciousness that is Love.

How shall the Holy Spirit appear to you this day? What are your needs? For as you express and inwardly feel those spiritual needs, so is the Spirit called to appear, to strengthen, to comfort, and to enable.

Is it energy and will that you need? Then experience the force that produces these words as flames of divine and enabling fire, energizing and enlivening.

Must you run the straight race very quickly today? Must you hasten and hurry? Crowd your day, then, but open your heart that Love may run with you; that Love may hasten, and hurry, and worry, and fret in comfortable companionship with that state of mind you choose for yourself.

Are you in grief, in sorrow, and in despair? Call, then and open within to the divine Comforter, to the nurturer and Lover of all souls.

There is no condition in which the Spirit of Love cannot enter and heal. There is no activity in which the Spirit of divine Love and compassion cannot enable, enliven, and strengthen.

The Spirit of Love is an active, plastic, malleable, universal expression of the absolute presence of divine Love in each soul, everywhere, always, in every moment.

May you find peace that you are not alone, be you hastening, resting or weeping. Always there is the Comforter.

We leave you in this reassurance, this knowledge, of Love and peace unending. Amen.

This afternoon I went across the street to another neighbors’ yard and used my hedge clippers to cut down their tall striped grasses. Then I put the grasses into two garbage cans, and then I put the garbage cans at the end of my driveway.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts minds, and souls to send Love, Light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite Love, Light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our Love, Light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.