The Family of God

Teacher: Universal Voice (The Soul Family)

Today we would like to speak about the family of God and the relationship you, as a beloved child, have within this extended family.  As humans, you are often fickle as to your assured status in this family, which requires you to be constantly reminded of this connection you have to those who love and care for you behind the veil.  It requires great faith on your part to believe that there are many unseen brothers, sisters, guides, teachers, and guardians near you who are devoted to helping you through your sojourn on this world—to get the most “soul value” you can from this intense experiential realm.  It is not necessary that you know us all by name or that you need special psychic awareness to communicate with us.  All that is needed is for you to reach out in faith and ask for what you need and feel this community of family.

Each one of you reading this message is known and dearly loved by “us,” your family.  This message is our way of reminding you of our connection with you.  You are reading this now because you asked for a more intimate connection to spirit, to God, and we are answering that request through this message and by many other methods that we can use to remind you that you are not alone.  The 11:11 time prompt is only one method we may use to communicate with you through our Midwayer associates.  We know you and we are constantly finding new ways to show you that you belong to this extended family.

Just because you are living in a material body and exist in a realm of lower vibration does not mean you are orphans, for when you transition to your next life station, you will meet many of us, your universe brothers and sisters, who are always here with you.  Call on us and say, “Family, please help me with this situation,” or, “Send help to my friend in need,” or, “Guide me to a right decision I need to make,” or simply, “Love me, I need your love in this moment, I am hurting, I am lonely.”   We are here for you, cheering you on, as you struggle through this period of intense soul growth.

Please understand that we really do hear you and we go into action to help you in ways that serve your highest good.  That “highest good” is not always recognized by you because your expectations are sometimes short-sighted or your desires are not healthy, but when your will is in alignment with the Father, things change very quickly and you may become aware that your family is working on your behalf.  Spend time with us in thought and word, like we are traveling with you wherever you go, and we will make ourselves known to you in special ways that you may recognize. 

Each one of you belongs to a group of souls, which are your extended family.  There are many here among us who are similar in propensity (vibrational strata) to you and can greatly assist you in your development.  As you grow and acquire valuable life experience, you help the entire family and contribute to the growth of the Supreme, and so it is to our mutual benefit that you are assisted in your spiritual progress.

Acknowledge us and call on us often to assist you—we love you and want you to know we are here for you,

Your Beloved Soul Family
  

Spiritual Unity: “A View from the Mountain Top”

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about spiritual unity and the relationship we all share in with the Father as ascending sons and daughters.  As one would look upon the surface of the Earth, they would see a world that appears to be discordant and far from having any kind of unity, yet when viewed from above (spirit) we see billions of lights divinely lit (the parts) that are interconnected and all serving the One (the Whole) in unity of purpose. 

The unity of purpose is for souls to progress toward perfection and to share the experiences of life here and hereafter with the God of experience, God the Supreme.  It is the quality of that experience and the disharmony of consciousness that divides men and women and prevents them from seeing the view from above.  If only but one fact was known to all on your world—that the Creator’s Spirit indwells every man, women, and child, all would realize that they share in the unity of spirit, and consciousness would begin to move from chaos to harmony—from darkness to light.

At the very root of the Correcting Time initiative, the goal has been set to bring planetary consciousness into spiritual unity with the knowledge that God’s spirit lives within all people.  Currently on your world, this is known only to a small percentage of the population, and even within this small segment, there is division of consciousness because each views his or her own progress as a competition or as a deficit in comparison to others progress.  Religion further divides this unity by separating groups by beliefs and creeds.

Do you not know that God requires diversity?  Diversity enriches the unity of purpose and no matter where you are on your spiritual path and progress, you with your unique personality, abilities, and potentials, are serving to expand the possibilities of creation.  Like climbing a mountain, each of you is unified in reaching the top, yet all will climb at a different rate, a different day, a different time, according to his or her abilities.  With each step, you reach for the next stronghold and your view changes.  You see those below you just starting out and you see those above you going higher surveying a greater view.  What is needed now is for the climbers to reach up to those above them as they reach down to pull those below them up, while they find truth, beauty, and goodness in the climb along the way. 

This cooperation in purpose is unity of spirit, and what you all share is the vision of reaching the top of the mountain.  What you believe that vision to be will be as diverse as each unique soul thinks.  Without this ebb and flow, this push and pull, this cooperation to share the vision, all progress in the universes would stop.  So you see, dear friends, you, no matter where you are on your path, you are just as important to the Great Plan as any other.  You are a link in the great chain of souls that contributes to the purposes of God—to experience Himself in the creation through the experiences of all His children. 

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
  

Each According to Their Needs

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about learning to be aware of the spiritual needs of others and giving to them that spiritual love and light that is inside of you.  This can be achieved by recognizing the level of love that they can accept—where they are in their spiritual journey, and giving to them that part they can receive without injury to their current beliefs and understandings.  This is the path to unconditional love and enlightenment.  Only by example will others see the light that is in you, and so will they become curious about who you are and what you have that makes you so bright and full of the Father’s love.

As students on the path, this method of recognizing the needs of others and attenuating the level of love and truth they can receive is one of the most difficult to master and it requires that you become completely selfless and attentive to the specific needs of that individual who is seeking spiritual love and guidance, but who is not consciously aware of that need.   There are many on your world that are in need of this kind of love and guidance, and they will be drawn to the light that you have if they feel the unconditional trust and assurance that they will not be judged.

You must carry a sense of peace and loving kindness in your interactions with others and always should you listen for feedback from your Indwelling Spirit as you listen to the need or unspoken desire of those in your presence.  See each person as a soul, like yourself, who is growing, but always understanding that they are at a different place along the path to eternity.  Have patience, and learn to listen more than to console.  When they feel safe and free from judgment, they will open the door for greater light to come in.  Your Indwelling Spirit will make you aware of the opportunity and you can share that part of the light that will not blind them.

For some, it may take years of exposure to your example before progress can be made. For others, they will open up like a flower to the early morning sun, and so shall you always evaluate your thoughts and adjust to the moment.  Over watering a flower will not help it to grow faster, for it must have only enough light and moister according to its needs.  Just as you care for the flowers on your patio, observing the state of the leaves and feeling the soil for moisture, do you know whether or not it needs watering, and so shall you observe and feel for how others are needing love and light.
 
In this way, my friends, can you, as light workers, who are dedicated to changing the contrast of this planet from one of ignorance and darkness to one of love and light, be truly effective.  The more aware you are of your own thoughts and actions will you be able to discern the needs of others and be of service.  Being a co-creator in the Great Plan requires this learning and teaching experience, and this is something that you will be doing throughout your ascendant careers as you move inward toward perfection.  The Father gives each according to their needs and so by living the will of the Father, you are doing the works of the Father.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
  

Fulfilling the Needs of the Soul

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we would like to talk about needs, and how they relate to spiritual growth and to the wellbeing of your physiology.   There is often confusion knowing the difference between wants and needs and it is important to understand and to fulfill certain needs to live a healthy happy life.  Many of you struggle with the emotions of dealing with unfulfilled lives because of the circumstances of your current life station or your perceived lack of opportunity.  There is much that you can do to bring balance and joy into your life by identifying real needs and prioritizing healthy desires.

Basic needs are things that are necessary for life, such as healthy food, clean water, and shelter from environment.  Without these basic needs, physical life is not possible.  To be whole, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, there are vital needs that should be met.  All sentient beings need to be loved and to express love—companionship—friends, lovers, family—God.  When these needs are not met, the individual is not whole or healthy and there are many on your world in need of love my friends.  The greed of the profit driven world has indentured many of you to live lives dedicated to fulfilling basic needs (food, water, shelter), while leaving little opportunity or time for the pursuit of the things that make you whole (to love and to be loved).

Those that are spiritually aware (God knowing) are fulfilling the need to love and to be loved at the soul level, while those who are spiritually unconscious seek this same soul need but often substitute this need with material pursuits, unhealthy relationships, or destructive vices.  All roads lead to Source, my friends, and even if you take the wrong road, or keep turning away from it, sooner or later, all those left turns in life will bring you back to Source—the wellspring of all love in the universes.

If you are searching for that which makes you whole—to love and to be loved, go to the Source of love, my friends, and ask for what you need.  If it is a companion, a friend, a lover, a kindred spirit, or that personal relationship with deity, make that desire known to God, and in faith, believe that your healthy needs will be met.  It is the intention and desire of the Creator that you have these needs met and it is His priority to lead you down the path to know love and to seek light. 

Therefore, if all your efforts and methods for finding love have failed, try going into your room and close the door, open your soul to the Father of love and sincerely ask for that love to come into your life.  This is one request that is sure to be answered, because it is a soul sustaining need and because He loves you unconditionally.  He knows that however you find love, share love, and receive love, that love is the highway that leads to eternal life—even for the spiritually disconnected individual who only experiences love through another person, that same love is coming from Source through them and through those they love.  Somewhere in time and eternity, love will lead you home.  “Ask and you shall receive.”

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
  

The Springtime of Eternity

Teacher Ophelius:

Today’s message is about tilling the soil of the soul to make ready for a new season of growth.  Some of you have been “working” at your spiritual growth by reading books and talking with others who are on the path—exploring the possibilities for greater awareness by observing how others have grown.  All the seeds have been planted, and now it is time for you to experience that personal contact with the Creative Force of the universe by reaching out in faith and sincerely asking for what you need to sprout the roots of divine assurance.  The Indwelling Spirit has prepared you for this moment and now it is time for you to feel the rain of eternal life.

It is quiet and you are alone—in solitude and in humble regard, you let down all the walls you have built for the protection of the self, and you are sitting quietly like a little child in hopeful repose.  You have examined yourself, your life, and you have forgiven all, and see yourself as a child in need of parental affection with arms raised waiting for the divine embrace.  Winter is over and the warm sun of spring is upon you. Ask the Father to embrace you and love you and to poor out His rain of eternal life that you may feel His life giving unconditional love.  Speak to Him and acknowledge Him as a reality, for He is the Creator and divine upholder of all there is, and He is the reality of all personalities.  Know Him, for he wants you to have this intimate contact—He truly loves you and he truly knows you—everything about you and he finds no fault in you—for you are His beloved child.

Speak to Him and tell him about all your struggles, your successes, and your hopes for the future. Then my dear one, ask him to fill you with His unconditional love and understanding, for love is what you need in this moment of sincere vulnerable quiescence.  Your soul desires that divine embrace—to feel the assurance and the reality of God.  Open your soul now and release all the doubt and feel His loving embrace pour over you from head to toe.  You are bathing in the light of the Father’s love and it is the most glorious, sublime experience you have ever had.  Feel it filling you up, feel Him washing away all doubt and know that you are a part of Him. 

This moment is the new season for your perfection seeking soul to know and to love Him that created you. 

“Come to me child, for I AM here in any moment you seek me out, ready to fill you with my love and provide all that you need to become perfect like I AM.”  “I have created the universes for you to explore and to receive from me my eternal promise.”  “You are a diamond in the rough and I shall draw out the brilliance of your potential and embrace you as you stand before me in finality.”  “You are a wonderful creation—a unique and cherished child that I love, and I shall never stop loving you.” “Come to me now and let me fill you with my love.”

Dear one, this moment is for you.  There is no qualification to receive the Father’s love, only your sincere desire to know Him.  Reach up to Him and He will reach down to you.  Go now into your room and close the door.  He is waiting there for you—to water your soul and to give you new life in this springtime of eternity.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

  

“I Abide In You”

Christ Michael:

Good morning dear one.  This is Christ Michael.  On this day, a sacred day for many of my followers, I want those who work at feeding my flock (the 11:11 receivers, translators, and supporters) to know how important they are to me and to the work of the Correcting Time.  We are partners in this work—I abide in you, and you abide in me.  What I have asked from you all, you have done out of love for me and for your fellows.  This, my beloved, is what I had asked of my own twelve when they walked with me on this earth.  It is this great fatherly love that will heal each individual, which will then heal your world.  Your dedication to the great work is duly noted and shall be written in the book of life.  I thank you for this most sacred service.

For those who read the messages, you are like a seed in the wind.  You take with you each day the love and the light from these messages and carry it to your friends, your family, your co-workers, and to the strangers on the street.  Those who shine their light into the world also abide in me and in the Father, and when you love without condition, without the need to receive something in return, you receive life from me and from my Father. 

You are all my disciples.  I know each one of you intimately, and I love each one of you dearly.  The healing of your world can only come through love, and so I ask each one of you to plant that seed of love in the hearts of those who are near you, and in doing so, receive from me that abiding love I have for you.  Faith, love, compassion, forgiveness, and understanding IS the living water that gives life to the seed of the soul, and so I ask you to water your souls.

Each one of you reading this message, right now, in this moment, I ask you to close your eyes, clear your minds, and take a few deep breaths and breathe in my love.  Please take a moment and do this now.  This is my gift to you my beloved children—may it seep deeply into every fiber of your being and grow in your hearts.  Take as much as you need, for this love is eternal, abundant, and without end.

My love is a healing love, and it is available to you always.  Call on me and I shall abide in you.

Peace to you, my beloved.

Following Your Life Plan

Teacher Ophelius:

The lesson for today is about being master of your life and fulfilling the desire of the soul to be who you really are—to boldly walk the path of your life plan and be the change you want to see in the world.  This, my friend, is the most courageous, difficult, and progressive thing you can ever do for yourself that will not only bless your life, but will bless countless others who move into your path and benefit from the great light of the Father’s Will shining through you. 

Many of you students on the path have come to this world at this particular time to serve in some capacity to uplift this dark world into the light.  Many are receiving the 11:11 time prompts for a reason, and that is to awaken from the dense veil of the material world and learn how to live the Will of the Universal Father.  Some are fulfilling the desires of the Supreme to live life according to their life plan and give back to Him the experiences of an abundant life, while others have come to participate in the reconstruction of a world in rebellion.  Whatever the case is for you, there is an underlying desire to be free from the self-inflicted limitations this world has imposed on you.

Many of you feel you no longer “fit-in” with old friends and family because you now recognize the spiritually unconscious state they live in, and their values are no longer shared by you.  You have awakened to the oneness of humanity and your values are more in alignment with Spirit than with social expectations.  You have become frustrated with the mundaneness of life to survive and carve out a living.  You feel there is something better for you and you feel this “tug” on your heart to move into this new space. 

This “tug,” my friends, is coming from your Higher-self, your Thought Adjuster, and it is the divine nudge to move and stay on course with your life plan.  When you resist the divine plan, or you are dis-empowered by circumstance and lack of opportunity, you become frustrated, depressed, and your life seems meaningless because you feel the discord of unfulfilled purpose.  Is there a way to get your life back on track with the plans of your Higher-self?

Ask Spirit for help and to provide opportunities for transition.  Become hyper-aware of the signposts and opportunities that show up in your life that are placed there for your benefit.  Having recognized those opportunities, ask Spirit to help you define the options for taking action and design a plan for moving in that direction, even if it is a small step that gets you closer to the entrance lane of your life path.  There is lots of help available and Spirit can point the way, and create opportunities for you, but only you can move your feet and open the door to your destiny.

There is a lot of work to do, my friends, and we need all the help we can get to reclaim this world and bring it back into the Father’s fold.  You students on the path are here to play a role and serve a purpose—everyone is important and needed. 

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

The Walls of Limitation

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we would like to speak about the limitations that humans put on themselves that prevents them from accessing all the spiritual help that is available to them.  These limitations come in many forms and most are the result of childhood programming and fear based conditioning.  The remainder is from injury as a result of past failures, rejection, and adult fears of low self-esteem (not being good enough).  These limitations are like walls that have been built up over time to shut out the light, but there is a way to begin to knock holes in the walls, which can give you a glimpse into a brighter future where growth, light, and love can become yours.

Walls are built for protection—to keep invaders from coming in and changing the comfortable life that you have created.  Some are built slowly from childhood where you are taught by others to fear and to keep safe from harm.  Other walls are erected very quickly as a reaction to injuries of the ego where many layers may exist to keep one from being vulnerable or curious about what lies ahead if one were to become open to change.  A complex system of these barriers can easily turn one’s life into a maze where it becomes difficult to find a way to out and allow love to come in.

These walls then become the limiting factor that prevents the Indwelling Spirit of God and all other spiritual guidance from operating efficiently to provide opportunities for growth and spiritual direction.  In essence, the walls become galleries for signposts that say, “keep-out,” “unsolicited advise unwelcome,” “I’ve seen this before and it will not end well.” After many years these walls and signposts become the excuses for a life of stagnation. The neuron-pathways in the brain become very deep and wide—well-worn, and new thoughts and ideas have little chance of finding higher ground.  Is there a way to break free from these hardened limitations?

Faith, my friends, is the pick-axe that can bring down the walls.  For some it is a slow process of cautious testing of the waters, or climbing the first interior wall to have a look at the second, then to see over into the third, the fourth, then to the green pastures outside.  Others let go and rise above the compound on the wings of faith to see the field through the trees. Faith is the bypass mechanism that bridges over the worn pathways that keep you in the habits of stagnation and limited thinking.  Faith is hope in things unseen, untried, and the conqueror of fears.  Faith is the one thing that can free you from the childhood conditioning, the hurt feelings, the low self-esteem, and will prepare you for spiritual guidance and soul expansion.

Give yourself permission to climb the first wall to your freedom and allow spirit to show you how to have life and have it more abundantly.  Open your heart and ask God for what you need, even if you don’t know what that is.  Be open to receive guidance and expect new opportunities to show up in your life.  Make yourself vulnerable and believe that nothing can really harm you unless you allow it.  Grant permission to your Higher-self to lead you to a life of abundance, love, and growth.  Be courageous enough to release the pride that has kept you from loving and experiencing a life of joy.  This is a true reality, my friends—the illusion is behind the walls of your making.  Only faith can set you free.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Equality and the Untapped Potential

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about equality.  Do you not know that the Spirit of the Living God lives within you?  Both men and women have this Divine Fragment of the Creator that teaches and guides and becomes your partner through the ascension onto paradise and beyond.  The Creator makes no distinction about what sex will receive His Indwelling Spirit.  All beings on this planet have the potential to achieve god-like perfection and all are considered ascending sons and daughters equally capable to explore the universes and return to Him the greatest of experiences.

There are many places on your world where little girls, young women, and adult women are repressed, abused, raped, sold into slavery, and forced to become prostitutes—shamefully treated like animals, second class citizens, barred from education by men who rule over them and where even in their cultures, societies, and governments allow such things to continue day in and day out as if the abuse was perfectly normal.  Even in the wealthiest of nations there still remains a stigma that women are incapable of equality with men.  Nearly half the potential of this planet remains untapped in these God-indwelled daughters of earth and in them shall the Spirit of God light up and bring this dark world to the doorstep of the age of Light and Life.

The ignorance and foolishness of backward thinking, abuse, and repression shall not persist on a world where the Creator’s Son has declared this planet be reclaimed for the Father’s glory.  Those communities, societies, and nations that allow this contempt shall either change or become unsustainable and shall vanish from the face of the earth.  The greatest resource in any nation is its people and to have one half of society barred from participation in nation building is suicidal.

All you students on the path, no matter where on the planet you live, or what society you were born into, have a responsibility to God and to your native planet, to make right this great injustice—lift up the oppressed women of this world, and in doing so, you will witness the greatest expansion of economic development, sustainability, and peace the world has ever known.  Look at those nations where women have the most freedom and you will see the greatest wealth—now look at those nations where women have the least freedom—what do you see? You see impoverishment—material, mental, and sociological.

I admonish you to indulge me in a little exercise that will help you understand what we see when we look at you humans on the earth plane.  Whenever you see another person, be it a man, a woman, or a child, I want you to imagine there is a great shining light—like a small sun, above the head of every person that moves with them.  Picture this in your mind right now—see it, feel the warmth of it, and feel a loving vibration emanating from it.  This is the Indwelling Spirit of God living within each one of you and it is perfect and good—it is divine.  How therefore can anyone who knows this truth see another person as something less than himself?  You see, herein lies the problem—it is in those individuals that see it not, and know it not, that continue to reign over the daughters of God with ignorance and injustice. 

What can you do to relieve this needless suffering?

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Spiritual Growth and Progress (Part 3)

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we will continue our lesson on Spiritual Growth and Progress.  Knowing now that you have a Fragment of the Father living within you, there are other personalities that you should know about that work with your TA to help you develop and progress as you live, and move, and have your being.  One such being is your Guardian Angel (GA), or sometimes called Seraphic Guardians.  My friends, they are not mythical, but real, and they are assigned in pairs to watch over you.  All Father Fragment (TA) indwelled beings in the time-space universes are assigned Seraphic Guardians and they have very specific functions important to your eternal survival.

Why do I need a Guardian Angel?  One of the most important responsibilities your GA has is to safeguard your soul.  She is the keeper of your soul-trust and upon your death and translation to the first mansion world, she safely delivers your soul (the surviving personality and identity) to the resurrection halls, and it is there, on the third day, where your waiting TA brings all the survival value experiences and memories of your former earth life, and reunites them with the sleeping soul in a new and incorruptible body called the “morontia body.”

What does the Guardian Angel do for me in my earth life?  She has a responsibility to the TA to maximize the quality of your earth experiences.  She helps you to build character and to help prepare you for your next life on the mansion worlds as does the TA.  She will create opportunities for you to grow and mature, and in many cases she will “engineer” somewhat difficult circumstances in your life that stimulate moral decision making.  It is in decision making that you grow, whether those decisions are “right or wrong” from your viewpoint, they will teach lessons and create values that you will live by that will determine the path of your experiences.  

There are seven cycles, or “psychic circles” to a human life that pertain to growth potential and achievement.  Starting at the seventh and working toward the first, your GA stimulates and guides you to achieve each of these personality perfecting milestones.  Some of you may pass through all seven, some only a few, or some may never surpass the seventh.  It all has to do with your free will, your mind potential, and your cooperation to follow the life plan created by your TA for the growth and progress of your soul.  Upon the attainment of the third circle, you are assigned personal “Destiny Guardians,” and you are granted “advanced standing” by the universe administrators.  It is at this milestone that you begin to grow weightier souls and your cooperation and curiosity to become more aware of your spiritual potential moves you onto a path that is more aligned with the life plan created by your TA.  Eternal survival and fusion with your TA is nearly assured.

Say hello to your Seraphic Guardians and thank them for their devoted service to insure your eternal survival.  They really do love you and are quite affectionate—they love to be acknowledged by you.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven 
 

Spiritual Growth and Progress (Part 2)

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we are continuing our discussion on Spiritual Growth and Progress.  Developing your awareness of the Indwelling Spirit—God Fragment (TA), is key to all perfection attainment, spiritual growth, and forward progression.  For you students on the path who wish to accelerate your growth, this is a very important step in attaining greater spiritual awareness.

How do I develop personal awareness of my TA?  You begin by becoming conscious that you have this “Higher Self,” and just as you become familiar with a new friend by spending time with them, you also have to spend time getting to know this Divine Friend within you.  Humans like to name things to help them remember and make personal, and so it is acceptable for you to give this TA a name that you can dialog with or call on when meditating, praying, walking, or driving in your car. You may refer to this Fragment of Divinity as He or She, it does not matter.  Your TA knows everything about you—every intimate detail—every thought, every desire, and every fear since the day you came into this world.  For all practical purposes, She is you.

Develop a habit of becoming conscious that He or She is there with you whenever you are least distracted by material life.  Soon you will find yourself becoming aware of Her even in the midst of conversations with others.  You may ask Her questions about anything you desire to know or ask for help with any problem or situation.  She is your divine guide, teacher, and pilot to perfection.  Not only should you ask questions, but you should listen for answers, and when I say “listen” I mean to pay attention to your feelings about how you should respond to a particular thought, reaction, situation, or problem you are facing.  Learn to trust your feelings.

When I pray to the Heavenly Father, am I praying to my TA?  When you are in prayer, your TA becomes the circuit or “direct-link” to the Universal Father on Paradise.  She exists outside of time and therefore there is no time lag or delay for your petition to reach the center of infinity—the home of deity.  Your TA is the director of your spiritual development and will coordinate all contact between you and any other spiritual personality—teachers, angels, or other humans who can help you to grow.  There is no need to think about “routing” your thoughts and prayers to any particular being, personality, or location—your TA is the “master operator” and knows what you need.

Although your TA can do all these amazing things for you, She cannot however, do anything against your conscious free will.  You may assist, or resist, some, or all, of your TA’s program for your personal growth—it is completely up to you.  When you fail to learn a valuable lesson, your TA will try another approach, and She will never give up on you.  Her love and devotion to you is beyond measure and it is literally true, “you are never alone.” 

The best way for you to “peel away” the veil between you and your TA is to sit in stillness and to have the intention of “being one” with divinity.  Express your joy, love, gratitude, and desire to grow and to become perfect, then sit in silence, conscious of your TA, and open yourself up to your feelings.  You may or may not hear dialog, but you will eventually become aware of the presence within you.  Try not to become frustrated in your stillness attempts.  Like any exercise, a muscle will only grow when you flex it.  Return to the divine well and refresh your souls, my friends, and soon you will know the great love that lives within you.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Spiritual Growth and Progress (Part 1)

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today and in the coming weeks is about spiritual growth and progress.  What must one do to grow spiritually and become more aware of spirit presence?  There are many ways in which to grow, my friends, and life lessons are certainly a big part of that growth, but many of you students on the path are asking for guidance on how to accelerate spiritual growth and awareness.  There is a way to optimize your time and accelerate your growth if you are willing to discipline yourself and to do the work necessary to bring about the understanding of self and the rudiments of cosmic purpose—ascension.  We begin with this first part of an extended lesson of questions and answers:

Who am I, and why am I here?  We must begin to answer the most basic questions so that you can understand yourself and your purpose, for without this basic understanding, growth is limited.  You are here on this planet, at this particular time, for several purposes.  The primary purpose, in which all people share, is that you are created as a unique aspect of the Creator’s Will in time-space—unique by your personality, which was given to you at birth, and unique in how you will experience life.  You, personally, as an individual, are known and registered in the awareness of the Most High as an ascending son or daughter and is therefore offered the gift of eternal life—to continue the grand adventure from imperfection to god-like perfection.

You are a vessel for the divine expression and you are the “instruments” for gathering unique experiences that will be shared directly with the Supreme Being—the emerging deity of the time-space universes, and indirectly, but instantaneously, with the Universal Father, the First Source and Center, the Father of personality, outside of time at the center of infinity.  The Creator is exploring Himself in His time-space creation through all of you His experiential children.  You are the eyes, ears, hands, and feet of the Creator—the sensors, the explorers.  You are a part of Him, and He is calling all of the time-space evolutionary universes and every sentient being in it from a finite beginning state of imperfection to an eternal state of godlike perfection.  This, in its most rudimentary form, is who you are and why you are here (primary purpose).

How does the Creator experience life through me?  On your planet, all children near the age of six years, having made their first moral decision, are indwelled with an undiluted fragment of the Creator that lives within their mind and becomes the monitor, guide, harvester of experiences, and direct link to the Creator, for which they (you) have bi-directional 24-7 hour access.  Some call this pre-personal fragment by many names: The Higher-self, the Over-soul, the Indwelling Spirit, the Father’s Presence, Thought Adjuster (TA), Mystery Monitor, the Atman, and others. Through this agency, the Creator lives in you, and through you.  You, on the other hand, live, move, and have your being in Him.  You are given identity and total autonomy—free will that you may experience the creation in any way you choose to experience it.

Developing your awareness of this Indwelling Spirit—God Fragment (TA), is key to all perfection attainment, spiritual growth, and forward progression.  Exploring this personal relationship (awareness) with your Thought Adjuster (TA) will be the focus for you students on the path in the next lesson.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

The Importance of Faith

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about the importance faith plays in the expansion of the soul—to believe in God, the Creator of all, and things unseen—to know within you that life is eternal, and no matter what happens in the life you now have—the struggles, the victories, the gladness, or the tears, that all will be well in time and eternity.  Faith is the wind in the sails of the soul, for without it, the ship has no ability to navigate and your life has no real purpose other than to survive and be pulled along by the currents and eddies of the circumstances of material life.  

Faith brings a unique perspective to life that allows the soul the freedom to expand because it opens up the mind and allows contact with the Higher Self—the Indwelling Spirit.  It is this openness and vulnerability to be guided by a Higher Power that fuels the expansion of the soul and provides peace and assurance to the mind that all is well.  Wellbeing is essential to soul expansion and faith is the vehicle that moves the mind into a space where anything is possible. 

Some will say that faith is born out of the trauma and tragedies of life—to shake the soul awake from the illusions of material life, and this is true for many.  However, once the trauma and tragedy has been accepted and the soul has been prepared for expansion, the Indwelling Spirit moves the mind toward healing and equilibrium.  This is where the spark of faith is born and it is through this newly found faith that healing begins and a state of wellbeing ensues and begins to expand the soul.

Faith leads to wellbeing, and wellbeing leads to soul expansion.  Soul expansion is a dynamic state where the great tension between man (imperfection) and God (Perfection) sets in motion the path from time to eternity.  Wellbeing means you are living in a state of love—that you have accepted that you are a child of the Creator and have faith that life is eternal—your life has purpose and meaning.  When “all is well,” and you are in a state of love, the soul expands because the mind becomes more aware of the values of truth, beauty, and goodness.  These are the values that survive death and bridge over into the afterlife and become a part of the continuum of consciousness and unique identity that returns to the Creator those personal experiences only you can have (purpose).

Faith, whether it is born out of trauma or nurtured in a state of wellness, is essential to your soul growth, my friends, and therefore I admonish you to have gratitude for those opportunities and life lessons that prepare you for expansion.  All these struggles to know who you are and what your purpose is in life is to prepare you for eternity.  Faith is the bridge over troubled waters that bring you through the storms of life to the safe harbors of wellbeing.  Take solace in the watch care of God and worry not about tomorrow, for today is the eternal moment and your wellbeing is what truly matters.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Communicate Your Feelings

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we would like to speak about the way in which you communicate and how often human language becomes misunderstood because it is processed differently in each of you.  It is largely an inexact and simplified form of thought translation that is dependent on your ability to associate word meanings with ideas.  The greater the vocabulary, the closer can you come to the intended thought expression.  The most difficult translation is the association of words with human emotions, and because you humans are highly emotional, the true expression of your feelings suffer in human relationships, and this is why so many live in conflict with those closest to them—the inability to say what they think and feel.

On other worlds throughout the universes there are beings capable of many forms of communication.  The most efficient are those beings that use telepathy—direct thought to thought communication.  With these types of beings, there is little that can be misunderstood as long as there is a somewhat similar maturity of mind.  There will come a time on your world in the distant future where humans will evolve and develop this telepathic communication which will supplant the verbal.  This is also the preferred method of communication for morontia beings used on the mansion worlds.  There, your thoughts are available to all and there can be no misunderstanding or deception—all will be revealed.

It is important that you all work on your expression of feelings into words and heal those relationships that are closest to you.  Many of you have already developed a low level method of telepathy which you are largely unaware of, yet because you are all connected and indwelled by the Spirit of God, communication at this higher level does not immediately register in the conscious mind, yet is perceived in the sub-conscious and the super-conscious mind (soul mind).  One example of this higher form of communication is when two people are expressing love for each other.  They can communicate with just a look, a smile, or a touch. 

Human sexuality is a higher form of communication that registers in the soul mind when two people are expressing the highest concept of unconditional understanding (unfiltered expression).  No words need be spoken and there is no misunderstanding in communication.  The soul mind takes over and communicates telepathically during this physical/mental/spiritual encounter.  In this case, the physical becomes the gateway to the spiritual—the higher path to the soul.  Most people on your world have completely wrong ideas about sexuality and what it really is.  Most of you understand the reproductive function of sexuality, yet few understand the higher telepathic benefits of soul expansion through this higher form of communication.

To bring your world into the age of Light and Life, is it vital that humans communicate authentically and express their thoughts and feelings in the spirit of oneness and unconditional understanding.  You all share the Spark of the Creator that lives within you, and you all share the potential to become perfect and Godlike.  You are all siblings with similar destinies growing up together on the same planet.  Love one another and express the highest form of unconditional understanding.  Free your mind, master your emotions—communicate your feelings.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Relationships and Divine Guidance

Teacher: Ophelius

Today we would like to talk about human relationships and divine guidance.  Does God approve of your choices, decisions, or actions when you are following your heart, even when those choices, decisions, or actions cause emotional pain for another?  Human relationships are very complex, and sorting out who is right and who is wrong is a “slippery slope” which can lead to a lot of heartache and emotional grief.   There may be no solution that satisfies both parties in a relationship where meanings and values are defined differently, and so we look to God for guidance so we can “feel good” about our position.

You have heard it said that “all is fair in love and war” or that “love is a battle field.” These are metaphors that infer there is a great disparity in meanings and values when it comes to human relationships and the definition of “love” as defined by each individual.  Unconditional love is “perfected love” and is something to strive for whereas human love can mean many things to many people.  Herein lies the difficulty and the root cause of human relationship incompatibilities.

God does not legislate human social mores and spirit will never tell you what to do.  You are here to experience life—to find meanings and values in relationships with others in the sandbox of evolutionary life.  Spirit guides us by whispering the values of eternity and meanings of universal truth to the best of our comprehension for where we are in our spiritual development.  Those who have developed little will have a much narrower viewpoint of universe realities, and so it may difficult or even impossible to bridge the gap with some until they have developed their inner knowing enough to hear the whispers of their Indwelling Guide. 

Your “job” here, so to speak, is to become perfect as you are called by the Creator. You are here to “find your way”—to make decisions and take actions that are in alignment with this calling.  Each one of you will experience success and failure at your “attempt” to align yourself with the Will of God.  The heart often times finds alignment easier than does the head and that is because the Indwelling God speaks to the heart, but the head interprets the heart and so the same message can come into the heart of two people, yet the conditioning and past experiences of that individual may assign different meanings to the message.

What is best for you is to do that which promotes the growth of the soul.  You cannot always know what is best for others, but you can “find your way” by taking your questions into the silence and listen to the heart and ask that the head be open to new understandings that it may interpret the heart with greater alignment with the Will of God.  Be open to what comes in, my friends, and interpret the heart from the viewpoint of eternity.  See the dialog between the heart and head as an unbiased observer with no emotional stake—identify and purify the intention, then hold it against the Creator’s calling (to be perfect) and weigh the consequences of the projected solution. 

If you are expecting to hear who is right and who is wrong, the head is not open—begin again.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Self-forgiveness: The First Step Toward Freedom

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about self-forgiveness.  We have spoken about the topic of forgiveness many times and forgiving others is an essential part of growth and forward progression, but today my friends, I want to focus on the first step to forgiving others and that is forgiving the self.  Without this first and vital step of forgiveness, you cannot move forward, even when all other forms of self-mastery are applied.  This is the key to release for all forms of self-bondage and the antidote to all spirit poisons.

All of you have, at one time or another, made choices that you have regretted and perhaps hurt someone, be it friend or foe, willingly or indirectly, by your actions, or perhaps you have failed at some important task or goal and have blamed others for your failure.  Feeling down on yourself and having a hopeless outlook about the future, or continually blaming yourself for repeated failed attempts to move beyond some rut of predictable actions or vices can keep you in a state of stagnation where you cannot move forward and heal from the mistakes of the past.

Often times fear is the driving force that keeps you from seeing the open door to your freedom.  Fear of others opinions and judgments about your self-conscious imperfections or perhaps fear of ridicule for changing sides—your need to be right even when you know you are wrong about some position or action you have taken—pride.  Making right moral choices, taking responsibility for poor decisions, does not show weakness, but rather shows strength of character and is an example to those who you believe are judging you, that you are a person of integrity.

My dear friends, it is OK to have made mistakes—it is OK to have failed!  This is how you learn, but in order for you to have gained wisdom from these lessons, you must acknowledge that you have failed and made poor choices. Without acknowledgement, you are likely to repeat the same mistakes again and again leaving you in a trap that you cannot escape from.  Having examined the self, and having acknowledged the error readies the self and grants permission to forgive.

Asking for forgiveness from someone you have wronged is a part of the healing process.  If there is no chance to ask for it, then you must ask it for yourself and in witness of your Indwelling Spirit.  If you have asked for forgiveness from someone and it was rejected, that burden remains on the other party and they must do the work necessary to free themselves of the hurt.  You must let go of it and move on using the experience as a lesson for self-improvement.

Once you have learned to forgive yourself, you can move toward the next step of forgiving others for wrongs they have done to you.  You are all essentially learning, in the kindergarten of your ascendant careers, to love and be tolerant of the imperfections of others who are learning alongside you.  In the bigger picture, my friends, all these bumps, bruises, and injuries to the ego are all but scaffolding that will fall away—only the learning moments that lead to forward progression and perfection will remain and become a part of the growing soul.  Let your souls grow weighty and free yourself from self-inflected bondage—learn to forgive yourself. 

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

Mind and Memory: The Building Blocks of the Soul

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about mind and memory—the ability to recall relationships, past events, past emotions, past visions in the mind’s eye of a moment in time.  This is a part of mind, and is not stored in your physical brain, but is a circuit that you have access to that was given to you at your birth in which you will continue to access throughout your ascendant careers.  This mind circuit is flexible and it changes in capacity as you grow and learn and begin to perfect your mind.  However, your ability to recall past events while on the time-space worlds is wholly subject to how well the physical brain performs as a transceiver.  Memory is one of the most important functions of mind, for it is the seat of identity—the history of your experiences and the very thing that defines who you are at any given point in your existence.

You have three types of memory: Short-term, long-term, and soul memory.  The first type, short-term, is mainly used to allow you to function in time-space—to navigate your environment, to experience the “moment to moment” passage of time.  This first type can be thought of as the qualifier for what types of experiences will be filed in the long-term and soul-memory.  Insignificant events, such as what you had for breakfast, will not be filed in the long-term or the soul memory.

The second type, long-term, is the storage house for significant events, relationships, and emotional moments that are passed on from the short-term memory and retained as part of a library of comparative experiences that you will draw from when making decisions about new experiences and how you will process them—the ability to learn, adapt, and acquire wisdom.  These are the memories that contribute to your personality development. 

Those significant events, relationships, decisions, and emotional experiences that contribute to the perfection of the human personality are recognized by the Indwelling Spirit (your Thought Adjuster) as having survival value, and will be routed to the third type of memory—soul-memory, which is “set aside,” so to speak, or “counter-parted” by the Thought Adjuster.  These survival value memories, my friends, are the most valuable to you as an ascendant personality, for they are the building blocks of the soul and will become the “new child” of the universe in the hereafter.  These memories will be retained by the Thought Adjuster and will remain eternally in His possession whether or not you survive.  Your decision to continue the journey inward assures that your unique ability to gather and process experiences will continue in the same stream of consciousness. 

This is your gift and contribution to the emergence of the Supreme Being—you and every sentient being in the grand universe are a part of the whole of universal mind.  This is the unity of being, and it goes beyond the human experience and connects all consciousness everywhere back to Source.  This may be thought of as your service to God—to understand this relationship as a child of the Divine Parent and to contribute survival value experiences to the glory of the Whole or the One.  In Him we live, and move, and have our being.  God has given us the opportunity to explore and co-create the universes through mind and memory, for He has provided the canvas of love and the primary colors of truth, beauty, and goodness to paint our masterpiece.  Go now and display your work in the gallery of the Most High.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven
 

The Viewpoint of Eternity

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about understanding and maintaining the eternal viewpoint.  What do I mean by this?  Life on an evolutionary world, such as yours, one in much confusion, having achieved a moderate level of technology, where wars still persist and elite power structures rule over the daily life of its inhabitants, there is a constant battle of the mind where your thoughts and actions are distracted and directed toward temporal problem solving, media marketing, and profane disinformation.  So many on your world have little faith or give little thought to the bigger questions in life which leads to a plethora of psychological dysfunctions and mounting social unrest.  It is vital for you and for your world to understand that you all possess a growing soul and that you are here to prepare for the next phase of human existence.

Life on an evolutionary world is the cradle and the jump-start beginning of an eternal career—an ascendant life in the grand universe where you have the opportunity to become perfect and godlike where you will change and grow and move from one realm to another, learning, teaching, and accumulating much knowledge and wisdom as you move inward toward the Great Source and Center of all there is.  You are the experiential children in time space of a Creator God who is Himself experiencing life in the creation on finite levels through the lives of all of you, his experiential children. 

Since everything in the creation—every material substance and living being that ever was created, has its origin in this Creator, all are connected to this all life giving Source.  Humans, being the lowest of will creatures that can know God, have the greatest opportunity to experience change from the beginnings of an animal existence on the worlds of time, to the sublime heights of perfection in the eternal spheres of Havona and Paradise.  This journey to perfection should be the ultimate goal in the minds of all men and women on your world—sadly this viewpoint is given little thought.

Holding this one thought in your mind—that we are all connected to the Source of creation, and that we all live and move and have our being in this Source, and that we all have the opportunity to live eternally and achieve godlike perfection—this one thought, should all on your world have, would solve much of your problems and bring supreme joy, light, and life to this now darkened sphere.

Think about it, my friends—how can you go to war with your brothers and sisters knowing we are all indwelt by the same Spirit of the living God?  How can you kill, deceive, and steal from one another when in truth, we are all one?  Only the self-absorbed consciousness of illusionary separatist thinking, where scarcity is falsely projected in a universe of true abundance, can such misery and suffering exist.  Free yourself from this suffering and maintain the viewpoint of eternity—embrace the unity of being.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

Methods to Prepare a Soul for Enlightenment

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about having a sense of timing, to know when it is right to reveal to someone your truth. Are they ready to hear truth or are they are not?   It is not always beneficial to speak your truth to someone who has not the capacity or the understanding to receive it, and in some cases, it can backfire and lead them the opposite way in understanding the very truth you so wish to reveal.  For others who are ready, they will ask questions and will want to know what you know.  Herein lies the key to enlightenment—to ask and you shall receive.

There are methods that can prepare a soul for enlightenment, who for now, remain in a state of confusion.  In these individuals, there may be a sense of urgency, a cry for help, or a wounded heart that cannot accept help.  For these individuals, prayer is needed to prepare the heart to receive what they need, and sometimes what they need is not what you have to offer.  Your intentions must be very clear and in alignment with the highest good for that individual.  You must be careful when interpreting their needs that you are not satisfying your own need to be right.  You must dissolve, completely, your ego and become a compassionate listener.

Take the position of “standing in ones shoes” and try and see from another viewpoint.  Ask questions about the confusion in someone’s mind and become curious about why they think the way they do?  Never should you criticizes their position, but should continue to ask questions and look for answers that contain some kind of truth and then expound on that truth.  This is the method Jesus used when he was instructing those with religious backgrounds—he would use probing question in sincere curiosity looking for shreds of truth where he could expand that truth to the point where it would crowd out the error and the individual would come to his or her own conclusions having convinced themselves of the error and accepting the expanded truth of their right thinking.

Mountains cannot be moved in a day, my friends, and so you must have patience and perseverance while you continue to pray selflessly for the needs of the individual to be met.  In some cases where the individual has hardened their heart, it may be necessary to leave that person to learn through difficult lessons of their own making before they will seek for the help of others.  This is what you call “tough love”—to wait until the troubled waters awaken and sober the soul.  Many of you can look back on your life and see this very process we are speaking about.

How shall you students on the path proceed when you are uncertain about the method for helping others?  Do as the Master said to his disciples:  “Go now into your room alone and speak with the Heavenly Father and ask in prayer for direction.”  Sitting in stillness and asking for direction, then listening for an answer is the best way forward, my friends.  You may not always get the answer you were looking for and sometime you will get more than what you asked for—something that you needed to hear and to heal from.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

The End of Separation

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about retrospection—to take a look back and review the past year and acknowledge where you have been, how you have grown, the lessons you have learned, and what areas of your personality you need to work on to move into a new year of new beginnings and fresh starts.  This, my friends, should be a healthy evaluation (not self-loathing or criticism) and something you should be completely honest about with the intention of true self-improvement that is not only good for you, but good for those in your life circles.  This is also a good time for reviewing goal attainments and setting new goals that will work together to move you forward while you spread the light of love in the world.

A healthy young tree reaches for the light stretching its limbs upward and outward to fill every cell in every leaf with nourishing light while waiting in faith on the right amount of rain to sustain its life and foster its growth.  So it is with you students on the path—you reach for the light without looking down, and by faith you live in hope and expectancy of greater days ahead where you seek for those goals you have in faith declared to the universe to come into reality.   If these goals have not come into reality, as you so desired, then it is healthy to look back in retrospection to re-evaluate and plan for improvement to get you back on track and moving forward again.

Regrets are futile—you cannot change the past, you can only change the future, and so you must let go of past failures and forgive yourself and others and accept the past as a life lesson and move forward.  Moving forward requires taking responsibility for your life and your actions, and only by acknowledging this objectively can you actively change the way you think.  Changing the way you think has a transformational effect on everything in your life—your relationships with others and the development of self-awareness—how you see yourself in the world.

Self-awareness is the key to measuring growth and transforming habitual thinking.  Being aware of your faults and failures in a healthy way is necessary to have mastery over the ego and to keep in-check those personality flaws that separate you from shining your light in the world.  Spending time in meditative contemplation loving the wounded child (the self) and stepping into the role of the wise parent will direct your thoughts toward self-improvement.  Asking for help from your guides and guardians, from God or from spirit will allow you to release your fears and live in faith knowing that as you move forward in love and good intent, new opportunities will manifest pointing the way toward your desired goals.

The ultimate goal, my friends, is to develop a real personal relationship with spirit—to have a greater understanding of God and His Spirit that indwells you—to know that you are a child of the Creator and that you have the gift of eternal life should you accept it.  Acknowledging your sonship with God is the end of separation and the beginning of unity with spirit.  Unity of spirit fosters brotherhood and goodwill in the world.  Discover this unity in retrospection of your imperfections and you will move beyond the self-imposed limitations of your ego and the dysfunctions of your past.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

“Why” Many Questions

Teacher Ophelius:

Today, my friends, there are many on your world asking “why.”  Why is it that a loving Creator would allow such injustices to occur on your world without divine intervention?  Why do innocent children have to fall victim to the evil machinations of a twisted and misguided individual where they have been robbed of the opportunity to live a full life on an evolutionary planet and be deprived of that valuable life experience?  Is there such a thing as universal justice?  What happens to these child victims—where are they now and in whose care?  What about the perpetrator of this heinous crime—what is his fate?  Volumes of books could be written to attempt to answer these many questions about the way the universe works and why such things are allowed to happen, and still you would not comprehend the depth and breadth of universe meanings and mechanics, yet we will attempt a “legal-brief” consolation to these questions.

Evil is not a necessary choice, my friends, but it must exist in potential to facilitate the functioning of free will.  Only when a will creature makes a conscious choice to embrace evil (sin) does it come into existence.  Like a stone thrown into a pond, the ripples from the impact spread out and echo in every direction.  So too does the collateral effects of both love and evil touch many lives when a will creature chooses to bring thoughts and ideas into reality.  The root cause of all evil acts is due to a lack of love and understanding—a disconnect from Source.  This is a systemic problem on your world where so many are lost and have no clue to what life is really about. 

The consequences of free will belong to the Creator and He sees all from the end to the beginning and He brings all things to light and to justice.  These little children who have been taken against their will, without choice, will be compensated in eternity as will their suffering loved ones who remain to carry on with terrestrial life void of their presence.  We cannot see the end from the beginning and so we cannot understand or see any good from such a seemingly unjust act, but when the wind stills, and the ripples from the stone become placid in the water, all shall be made right as the energy from the stone obeys universal law.  If we were to follow every ripple from every exponential cause and effect from such a tragedy, and could lay it on a scale, then would you understand and see divine justice at work and see how love really triumphs over evil in great disparity.  Knowing this however, brings little comfort to those who have lost their beloved little child in this moment in time.

Those little souls are now safe and lovingly cared for in the foster care of the angels on the nursery world of our local system who will love and nurture these little ones in a family-like atmosphere and provide education unlike anything you can imagine here on your world.  They will grow up just as do the children on earth except they will not be subject to all the ills and psychological dysfunctions of a world in rebellion—they will excel and evolve in an environment filled with love and kindness while they learn about the earth and its “real” history and why people act as they do and why they are so disconnected from God.  The trauma of their demise will leave no scar in their ascendant careers and many of them will grow and become teachers to many of you when you arrive on the mansion worlds.  They look forward to the happy reunion with their loved ones when they arrive and are allowed special privileges to know about the welfare of their parents and siblings while on earth.  After a time of grieving is over, it is helpful for these little ones to know that their loved ones are happy and continuing with their lives knowing how well they are cared for on the nursery worlds.

We may not comment about the fate of the perpetrator of this crime except to say that he also was once a child brought up in an environment of dysfunction and misguided love with little moral guidance—a consequence of indolent free will.  It will be up to that individual to accept the mercy of Christ Michael and all that comes with compensatory rehabilitation.

Let the disparity of love over evil prove true, my friends, and let us use this tragedy to take a deeper look at ourselves and where we are going as a race of free will beings.  May it heighten our awareness of the oneness we all share as children of the Creator Father—all indwelled by His spirit, all seeking perfection through love—brothers and sisters of the human race.  Only through love and understanding can we be truly free.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

Receivers note:  This message refers to the school shootings at Newtown Connecticut where 20 children were killed by a gunman.

Era of Change

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we would like to speak to you about the Era of Change.  Old things are passing away and new things are coming into reality.  You see this in every facet of your life—the environment and weather patterns; social movements and popular culture; political ideologies and governments; economics and world trade; science and technology; even your own personal beliefs are changing as your awareness expands and you come one day closer to your transition into eternity.  All these changes are the evidence of the providence of God—spirit moving in the lives of men and women to create opportunities for change.  Why is this so?  Because CHANGE = EXPERIENCE.  Experience leads to wisdom and wisdom leads to progress—progress leads to perfection.  Perfection by experience is the reason for your being.

All humans on your world are experiencing change in their lives, and in this era of change, the rate of change is growing as the spiritual pressure is increasing creating more opportunities for change—it becomes exponential.  What you are all experiencing is the transition from one state of awareness into another.  You are being “moved along,” like it or not, up the evolutionary ladder and because of the rebellious past on your world, which retarded normal rates of change, things and events are being accelerated to bring your world into balance.

There are varying degrees of resistance to change—those who resist the most will find difficulty, whereas those who embrace change will transform their lives and discover opportunities that will enrich their souls.  There are those small minorities of men and women on your world who work very hard to prevent change, mostly those of great power and wealth who believe they must stifle progress as a way to stay in power and maintain wealth.  This of course cannot happen without imposing their will over the will of their fellows—creating an imbalance of opportunity, which prevents growth, and slows down planetary evolution.  It is like the building of a dam, and at some point, the pressure of the water behind the dam will overcome the blockade set by the builders allowing the river to once again follow its natural course. 

Those that resist change are really resisting God’s Will and it shall be for those individuals that impose their will over others for the benefit of self that will find it most difficult to transition into eternity.  Only those things that enrich the soul are of value in eternity.  Material wealth and power are only temporal scaffolding and have no place in the ascendant life.  If therefore you only have experience with these temporal things and have resisted the soul building experiences in life—love, trust, authentic relationships, spiritual development, and brotherhood, then will you find yourself deprived of the tools that will propel you into service and joy in the ascendant life, and you will have to learn again all those things which you failed to achieve while given the opportunity on Earth.

Let go of fear, my friends, and embrace the brave new world in which is upon you now, for all these experiences, good and not so good, are preparing you for your next adventure in eternity where love is the currency of passage and service is the key to all joy.  Perfection hunger will be the driving force that moves you inward to ever higher levels where the discovery of the God of all creation awaits your homecoming.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

Maintaining Your Spiritual Health

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about maintaining your spiritual health by positive thinking and remaining in a state of hope and expectancy that all things will work for good when you choose to be positive rather than negative.  Everything in the creation is light and vibration, my friends, and so if you are positive, you maintain a high vibration, which attracts light, whereas being negative carries a lower vibration, which will attract things of lessor light into your life.  In some cases, the lower emotions like depression, hate, malice, jealousy, envy, and others may in fact attract sympathetic metaphysical constructs that can and do attach themselves in a parasitic like way to the energy body of the host who has aligned themselves with lower vibratory emotions or addictions.  These can be unhealthy and unwanted visitors that can drain your energy, cause illness, and influence your moods and emotions.  We would like to inform you students on the path that these things exist and the best way to avoid an unwanted visitor is to maintain a positive outlook, stay clear of the lower emotions, and raise your vibratory state by communion with Source.

There are so many on your world who are disconnected from Source—to God, to their spiritual natures, that they search in vain for things (material and vices) to satisfy the longings of their souls and who refuse to look at themselves and ask the question: “What is the meaning of life.”  Instead they fill the void in their lives with distractions—entertainments, drugs, alcohol, and material goods as a way to ease the pain of life, while at the same time avoid the self-reflective examination of why they are not really happy.  Living in this state of confusion can lead to depression, sickness, and lower the vibratory state of the light body.

Like attracts like, and so when you maintain a certain frequency of vibration, you attract things and other personalities to you that match the vibratory state of your energy field.  “Birds of a feather flock together.” Eventually when someone becomes so rigid and inflexibly confused about who they are, they become less “real” and when someone is taken in death in this confused state, they have no spiritual map and can become “lost” in the lower realms for long periods of time, while at the same time, these same lost individuals leave behind the inertia of their emotional state as a metaphysical construct which becomes an echo of their former life.  These energy packets are known as “thought forms” and they populate the borderland where they can and do meander about finding living host who match the vibration of their former existence. 

These thought forms have limited volition and intelligence and once they latch on to a living host, they can sometimes be difficult to be rid of.  Drug addicts and alcoholics who are seeking help often find it difficult to maintain sobriety because of these sympathetic thought forms who have attached themselves and are looking to maintain a state of comfort where they, as former addicts, wish to continue in the same life-style or vibratory state.  It is in the 12 step programs where acknowledgment of a higher power (God) can change the dynamics of the soul and raise the vibratory rate of the energy body to where the thought form cannot dwell and must depart.

This is a much bigger discussion that we can continue another time, but in answer to your question, yes, these thought forms can in some cases become attached to the living at vulnerable emotional moments or when illness sets in creating a temporary drain of energy and lower vibratory states.  Unfortunately because your world is so confused it has an overabundance of these thought forms floating about the borderland and they can really create havoc with the living.  It is important to maintain a high vibratory state through positive thinking and higher emotions like love—these are “bullet proof” shields against unwanted visitors.  Most importantly is to develop a spiritual map through faith in God to bring you safely across the river of life where you will leave no negative emotional constructs behind to plague the living.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven


Receiver’s note:  I was asking questions about a young woman who has developed the symptoms of a parasitic thought form and I was looking for conformation as to how this may have occurred.

The Circuit of Worship

Teacher Ophelius:

Today we would like to speak to you about a subject that goes mostly unexplored by most people, and one that is so vitally important because it is the life blood of the spiritual body—the mind circuit of Worship.  For many, the word “worship” connotes a primitive form of ritualism—of groups of people posed prostrate with hands in the air and wailing away at some iconic lifeless idol of deity.  That was a method used by primitive man to pay homage to the gods.  Today in modern religion, worship may consist of singing and praising in groups—giving thanks for the honor of being a child of the Creator and in some churches, celebrating the name of the Creator Son.  Does the Creator Father or the Creator Son demand worship from the children of time?  What exactly is it, and why is worship important to you and your spiritual health?

Simply put, my friends, worship is divine communication—connection with God at the highest level for a human, for true worship bypasses the rational mind and connects the mind circuits directly with deity through the Indwelling Spirit—the Thought Adjuster.  In these moments of pure connection, brief as they may be, the soul opens for life sustaining growth and faith is strengthened providing solace to the mind and a greater more personal relationship with the Creator Father—as it is sung in some worship songs, “To know Him, is to love Him.”

Knowing the Creator (through the circuit of worship) is one of two things that delineates man from the animal—the other being the circuit of wisdom.  Worship is different from prayer in that it contains no petition, only the desire of the creature to commune freely with the Creator, and in unstructured and spontaneous form, can be the most joyful experience a human can feel while in the flesh—it is like the wind in the sails of the spiritual vessel—the soul. 

The Creator Father desires worship from His children because He wants to draw personally close to them in mind and spirit and to feed them with his perfect and divine love—unconditional love that is necessary for healthy spiritual growth.  It is this intimate connection that is of value to both the Creator and the creature that establishes the foundation for continued life in the grand universe and the adventure of seeking and finding God.  Worship strengthens spiritual gravity—that drawing power from the Creator that calls all sentient beings to perfection—to discover the God of all creation.

How does one worship the Creator?  There is no set of predefined methods for this—it is personal and free from rules.  You do as you feel, but it is most effective when alone and without distraction.  You simply let go of all your worldly thoughts and cares and place yourself in the presence of God.  Expressing thanks, gratitude, love, and acknowledging your sonship as a child of God, is one good way to bring you into the state of worship, or it may be simply being quiet with God and feeling that joy that no words can express.  Imagine the hand of God reaching down to you, and you, the child, reaching up to God.  This divine “handshake” is the state of worship.  There is peace, joy, sustenance, and power in the grasp of the Almighty. 

If you have not experienced this needful spiritual connection, I recommend you give it daily consideration.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven

The Willingness to Change

Teacher Ophelius:

The message for today is about the willingness to change.  What do I mean by this?  The willingness to change is the degree at which you allow the Indwelling Spirit to align the mind with higher values and meanings, thus creating a more direct channel for soul building, where opportunities for survival increase and the awareness of imperfection becomes apparent.  This “willingness to change” is the key to all success in life and progress in eternity, for without it, there is no movement and life stagnates and becomes meaningless.  Embracing change brings opportunity, and opportunity provides the vehicle for discovering the true self and the untapped potential that lies hidden in every man, woman, and child.

Have you ever struggled with some problem in life that seems to keep reoccurring—something that vexes the heart and mind and is constantly reminding you of the discomfort of resistance to change?  This is an opportunity, my friend, to explore the possibilities of higher awareness—to subdue the ego and allow the Indwelling Spirit to teach you how to move one degree closer to godlike perfection.

Can you think of a situation where you swallowed your pride and let go of malice and allowed forgiveness and mercy to soften the heart and heal the mind of some injury to the ego?  This is faith at work—the allowance for change in the hope for greater understanding of the I AM—to reveal another layer of the mystery, which asks the question, “who am I.”  The willingness to change is the catalyst for all progress and growth and is the individual’s ultimate procurement of free will.

Humans were created imperfect by design to allow for a greater depth of experience, moving from imperfection to Godlike perfection.  Being the children of the Creator, all share those experiences with the Supreme Being, the God of experience. Your willingness to change, to move away from selfishness and separation, and toward perfection and unity, provides the depth of experience for the Supreme Being to explore Himself (the Universal Father) and to answer the question for all beings in the creation, “who am I.”

Your contribution to this exploration of the Ultimate and Absolute Self is priceless and valued above all and so you are divinely loved by the Creator and shown the way to perfection as willingly as you allow for change—to move from one state of awareness to another.  Those that are slow to progress, or those that fail to survive, are those that use their free will to solidify error and to maintain separation by refusing to exercise their will to change—to maintain present awareness and to reject all opportunities for change.

View life from every angle my friends and explore all possibilities as does the Creator, for this is how you become God-like and move accordingly with the divine plan as one organism.  When you choose willingly to change, you become a participant in the creation of the time-space universes and you will therefore share in the divine joy of discovering the I AM.

Peace to you,

The Circle of Seven