This article features excerpts from two case history nonfiction books documenting the Phyllis V. Schlemmer / ‘The Council of Nine’ channeling case chronology.  Phyllis was the trance medium (or ‘channel’) through whom spoke ‘Tom’ of ‘the Council of Nine’ (or ‘the Nine’).  In addition to Phyllis, key members of the research group were Andrija Puharich (Author of the Uri Geller case study book) and Sir John Whitmore.  One research group member studying the transcendental communication of ‘the Nine’ was “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, who learned about “colonizations by other civilizations from the Universe” among diverse metaphysical and cosmological subjects.  The case is a topic of previous blog articles.  (incl. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Quoted passages from Briefing For The Landing On Planet Earth (1979) by Stuart Holroyd reflect the text made available at TheEyeof Horus website & bibliotecapleyades.net.  Online today may be found unidentified versions of The Only Planet of Choice (1993) by Phyllis V. Schlemmer with texts that are in stark contrast to what may be read in the original paperback book owned by myself.  The first printing was in April 1993.  This article is quoting the revised edition of August 1993.  Phyllis’s research collaborator Andrija Puharich is represented by the name ‘Andrew’ in book transcripts.  While both the Schlemmer and Holroyd books feature some of the same transcript material, Holroyd’s offers a biographical account of the sequence of events involving the key participants in the channeling sessions.  This blogger has included the authors’ notes when these are deemed useful.
 

Phyllis V. Schlemmer is the medium whose channeling sessions are the subject of the two case study books that are the sources for the transcripts featured in this blog article.

 

Briefing For The Landing On Planet Earth Excerpts

 

Chapter Four

Exits (Excerpts)

 

Thinking of the landing as the Second Coming, John asked, ‘Will the beings that remain collectively represent the Christ or will the Christ be among them?’

‘You must remember that all of you and all of us have the Christ within us,’ Tom said.  ‘It will be a collective consciousness . . . Man is now coming out of the true dark ages of the planet and becoming aware of the existence of other life forms in other parts of the universe.  Men have always assumed that there was someone sitting up there taking care of their problems, but they also assumed through their ego that they were the only existents and that this being called God was only concerned with them.  Man now has to understand that there are other forms of life and that the universe does not revolve, or evolve, just around man.’

 
Andrija now asked about UFOs, and whether they were also created manifestations.  Tom answered: ‘Many of these flying things that you call UFOs come from our place, but they come from other places also, and they do come in physical form.  But many of them are not physical.  They are like your movie screen.’

When they had been staying at Mill Hill in London at the time of the May Lectures, Andrija and several other people had seen a number of aerial objects.  They had counted forty-three in all, and Andrija had taken some photographs.  ‘On the photographs,’ he now said, ‘there was a strange, spirally, vaporous kind of figure that was quite large.  Now what would that be?’

‘That would be one of us,’ Tom said.  ‘We are energy.’

Would it have been a form taken for the occasion, Andrija asked, or what they really looked like as their natural selves.

‘It is a difficult to explain to you, Doctor, that we do not really have a natural self,’ Tom said.  ‘We are what we think we are at that time . . . We exist in the zone that you call cold.  Because of this we have no problem in manifesting in any manner we desire.’

‘Yes,’ Andrija said, ‘on Earth we are just beginning to understand very feebly the zone of cold or superconductivity and we know that there’s no resistance there, no friction, in other words that it’s the area of perpetual motion.  Is that not essentially true?’

‘It is true, and this is perfection,’ Tom said.

‘So from all this,’ Andrija went on, ‘we gather that you are pure light beings in a sense that we don’t even understand because you exist at a velocity beyond light, beyond photons, beyond tachyons.  And secondly, I would assume that you are more of the nature of what we would call soul than any other thing we can imagine.’

‘We are soul.’

‘Are the Nine of the same nature as you are?’

‘We are one and the same.’

‘Can you explain the profound mystery of why there are nine manifestations of . . . I guess we have to use the word God for lack of a better one.

‘I will consult with the Council to see if we may relate this,’ Tom said.  ‘Will you bide with us?’  After a pause he went on: ‘Nine is complete.  Everything is nine.  In your world you have said seven many times, when everything is truly nine.  There are nine chakras which are the nine principles and elements of God.  There are nine bands round this planet Earth.  There are nine etheric bodies, and going through your transitions is to attain the nine bodies.  Nine is a complete number.  It is whole.  This becomes one.  Over nine it cancels, and nine is complete.’

Andrija mentioned his communications with the Nine of many years ago through Dr Vinod and asked if this material was still valid.

‘This does not change,’ Tom said.  ‘But remember this: we are not God.  All of you and all of us make God . . . Many of your physical beings deify other physical beings, when it is truly them.’

 
‘In order for the universe to evolve, it is important for this planet to evolve.  The souls that have come to this planet have become irresponsible in their physical bodies.  The density of this planet is so heavy and thick and is . . . we know not the word to explain to you what this planet does to the soul.  This planet is a planet of desire.  The souls that are here act as if they are in quicksand, and are being gobbled up and swallowed in this desire.  It is important for this planet to evolve or other planets in the universe that are under this planet or surrounding this planet are not able to go forward.  It has stopped the growth of the universe.  It has contaminated and polluted the universe.  It is important for the level of consciousness of this planet to be raised.  It is the love from this planet that generates the energy that becomes God . . . Many souls when they die are trapped in the atmosphere and are evolved over and over on this planet, and seem to be going nowhere.  This planet was originally created to teach a being balance between the spiritual and the physical world, but in this physical world they got involved in a material world, and so these beings never evolve beyond the belt of this planet.  Their desires hold them to this planet, and so you have a multiplication that is going on until this planet will sink . . . They can’t get beyond it because of desire, because of hate, because of greed, because of enjoying their physical pleasures.

We have no objections to the physical, you understand, but it is when this becomes their primary concern and they are not concerned with the evolving of the planet, and with their fellow men, and with trying to find the true God.  You explained this, Doctor, when we listened to your conversation the other day and you called it a bottleneck.  We consulted and decided that if we looked in a bottle and there was a plug and we couldn’t get it out: this is exactly what this planet is.  Your description was correct.’

‘Could you explain once more,’ Andrija said, though I think I understand — how a few humble beings like us, who are very simple beings, can really help to unplug this bottleneck?’

Tom answered: ‘The energy that surrounds you and which comes from us, because you are our channels, creates a vortex that then radiates out and then can raise the consciousness of this planet.  Even though you feel it is an impossible task, it is not so.  You chose this situation.  You willingly gave of yourselves to come back to this dense, heavy Earth.  You have reincarnated on this planet several times, not because it was necessary but because you needed to understand and to get the feel of this planet in order to raise its level of consciousness.  This energy, as I explained, creates a vortex of love and peace and harmony.  Everything needs an energy base.  We are energy, and we need you to channel our energy.’

Chapter Five

Encounters with the Opposition

 

Recalling that in a recent communication Tom had said that there was a time, two thousand years ago, when the Earth was ready to make the evolutionary change now being attempted, Andrija asked if the time referred to was the period of Jesus Christ.

‘This is correct,’ Tom answered.  ‘But we do not call him Jesus Christ.  We call him the Nazarene.  He was one of us.  His inspirational work and healings were inspired by us and his energy was supplied by us.  We had great hopes at that time, but then you made a god of him as you have made a god of many.  This will not happen this time.  There will not be one but there will be a collection of beings who will raise the consciousness of this planet.’

‘There are many on Earth who expect the return of the Nazarene,’ Andrija said, ‘but I gather from what you say that this is not possible.’

‘A single individual will not return,’ Tom said.  ‘There are many of you on this planet that are similar to the Nazarene.  It is very important that you do not defy us.  It is important that you understand that God is in each and every one of you, that God is love and it is love that creates the one God!

 
‘It’s clear to me that we have to address ourselves to two classes of opponents,’ Andrija said, ‘those that we have on Earth, who I think we can recognise, and on the other hand the negative cosmic forces.  Could you say something about each of these forces that we have to contend with?’

‘They are one and the same,’ Tom said.  ‘Those that oppose you here are emissaries of those that oppose you in the cosmos.  The cosmic civilisations that are in opposition feed on the negativity of this planet and of other planets: they are the civilisations; that instil in the physical beings of your planet their greeds, their hates, their desires and their love of possessions.  By doing this they are able to generate more power.  If you understand what we have explained to you before, that the energy which is created then creates God, because the energy is love, then you also understand that the energy of greed, the energy of jealousy, the energy of desire, also creates an opposing force.  The opposing force is very powerful, it is very strong physically because it has no morals, no ethic, because of what is fed to it.  We know your question, “How can we then bring it into balance?” And the positive forces also can create a problem by being too naive, but the positive forces also believe that acting on the principle of love they can then bring into balance the negative forces, This is a great cosmic battle.  This may sound very strange to you, but if the forces of dark win over the forces of light, then the soul of the individual will no longer be the individual soul because it will then feed a gigantic power but will have no free will.’


Within a two hundred of your year period,’ Tom said, ‘there will be an ice age on this planet if something is not done, and then the souls who have been trapped on this planet will for ever be trapped.  They will not be able to evolve or understand because they will be involved constantly in the desires of the physical.’

The theme was developed in a later communication: ‘We spoke to you of an ice age that is coming, and this is something that is occurring because of the illnesses of the human race, and when we say illnesses we mean of your technology, which has not been refined. This is not something that is being brought to you from outside your planet or by other forces.  It is coming about because of the greed and because of the desires of the beings of this planet . . . because of the pollution in your atmosphere, and in your waters which in turn pollute your atmosphere, so that the sun can then no longer penetrate.  With our technology we will be able to help rid the earth of the problems that your pollution and your technology have created.’

Human greed, desire, jealousy and emotional imbalance are responsible both for the dire situation the planet is in ecologically and for the general cosmic crisis, and as it would require a fundamental change in human consciousness and orientation to overcome these failings it is important both for the Earth and for the universe that such a change be effected.  This message, embellished with the warnings about the cunning and power of the opposition forces bent upon preventing the change, is not remarkably original in the context of traditional ideas of apocalypse and the literature of moral exhortation.  But there is one rather original aspect to it, which kept coming up in the communications of October: the stress on the fact that the primary need was for balance, and the cosmology related to this idea.  The prescription for success and for continuing growth, both in the individual and in the cosmos, is not to beat the devil in a dramatic final contest and thus usher in a new age of sweetness and light, but through unremitting effort to hold in balance conflicting but complementary forces.

In answer to a question of Andrija’s as to what the opposition forces were like, how they operated and where they came from, Tom said: ‘You ask from where they come, and we know that in your mind you wonder if they are the counterpart of us.  Is this not correct?’

‘Yes,’ Andrija said.

‘No, they are not the counterpart of us,’ Tom went on.  ‘Remember this: that we are in the centre; and we don’t wish to sound as if we are perfect or as if we are egotistical, but on either side of us there is the positive and there is the negative, and when I say this I mean there is the positive which is not balanced and there is the negative which is not balanced.  We are in the centre, and we are balanced.  We are trying to bring those other forces into balance.  Do you understand?  They are not the counterpart of us.’

Andrija confessed that he was still puzzled.  ‘We don’t understand the nature of these two forces that you are in the centre of,’ he said.

Tom said patiently that he would try to explain in terms that they would understand, though he stressed that the explanation was really inadequate and only a rough analogy: ‘You are a physical being, and you have a left and a right, and without your left you would be unbalanced with your right, and without your right you would be unbalanced with your left.  This is the situation.  They are part, but they are not all, and they are not complete.’

This wasn’t profoundly enlightening, but they let the question rest for the time being.  Andrija took it up a few days later, asking how the forces that Tom called positive and negative related to what people on Earth considered good and bad.  This elicited a long and interesting statement.

‘It is difficult for you in your physical world to truly understand the importance of both,’ Tom began.  ‘I will try to explain.  Visualise the universe as a giant scale.  We are the pivot of this scale.  Visualise that on one side of the universe all would be negative and that all on the other side would be positive, and as you see this you know that there is a complete out-of-balance situation.  The universe actually has four sides, and within each of the sides there are many galaxies and solar systems.  Now on the other two sides of the universe from this side it is in perfect balance.  But on this side . . . How may I explain?  If you would take a stone for each of the galaxies and they would be in perfect weight and perfect proportion to those on the other three sides, then this would also be in balance.  But if one of those stones was a porous substance and you placed it in oil and it absorbed the oil and became weighted with it, then it would upset the balance and pull this scale out of calibre and would upset the other side of the universe.  Your planet Earth is accomplishing that.  The negative is the heavy oil.  Remember, the other sides are balanced, but this imbalance that we have can in turn topple the rest.’

That seemed fairly lucid, but Tom wasn’t entirely happy with his analogy, for he said, with a touch of the resigned weariness that anyone who has struggled to find words for abstruse concepts would recognise, ‘That is not quite correct.’  Then, apparently recalling Andrija’s original question, he went on: ‘In actuality, there is no good and there is no bad.  It is only when one becomes sour or rotten that it contaminates the rest, whether it would be good or bad.’

‘We understand that you are now working with us and what we consider the positive forces,’ Andrija said.  ‘But have you ever in the past stepped in to actively aid the negative forces when the positive has been causing the imbalance?’

‘When the positive has no understanding of the negative, it is out of balance,’ Tom said.  ‘Without being aware of the negative and being aware that it must be balanced, then that is out of balance.  And the answer to your question is yes.’

‘That is very important for our understanding,’ Andrija said.

Tom continued: ‘Because of the ignorance of the peoples of your planet, and because of their religious leaders who have taught this ignorance, the negative forces, which are not truly as you see them, manifest in that way in order to instil fear.  But what is truly negative, what has created the upset, besides the desires and the greed, is the complete denial of the existence of God.  Do you understand?’

‘Yes,’ Andrija said, ‘so this is the greatest thing that has to be redressed or righted?’

‘This is correct,’ Tom said.  ‘And you must explain also to people the necessity for earth people, and for the souls and spirits that surround your earth, to release themselves from greed and desire, because that is the trap.  Your religious leaders do not understand this and do not teach the people.’

 
. . . John asked about humour.  ‘Most of our humour,’ he said, ‘is based on our physical existence.  So I wonder if you understand our humour, and if you have humour in your world.’

‘We have cosmic humour God could not have survived without being able to laugh at himself.’

‘What happens in the universe when God laughs?’ Andrija asked.  ‘Does everything shake?’

‘Everything shines.’

 
‘Talking about the gods, there’s one question I’d very much like to ask.  On Earth there are many ideals of God: the Buddhist, the Christian, the Mosaic, the Hindu, and so on.  Could you indicate which of these ideals most closely matches the ideal of the Nine?’

‘The ideal of the man called Christ, because he was the last of those of us,’ Tom answered.

‘And of those descriptions of Christ given in the Bible, which is the most accurate?’

‘There are many misinterpretations in your Bible.  It is true that the man you call Christ lived a normal, human existence, but he was a man of discretion, and he walked with discretion among the people.’

‘Was he one of the Nine?’

‘No, but he emulated their thoughts and their understanding.  There are many things that are not told about him, for what he did he did in private and did not allow the world to see him in his human frailties.’

‘That is a big problem for us,’ Andrija said.

‘Remember who you are, and remember it is important to master the areas of your life.  If you can be discredited, for no matter what reason, then the jackals that are against you will find that reason.’

‘It’s very difficult for us to understand,’ said Andrija, ‘how so much could be at stake because of us.  You’ve made it quite plain that if we remembered who we are these things would become clear, and we have tried to do that, but it’s difficult.’

‘We have told you who you are,’ Tom said, ‘and we understand that it is difficult for you to know who you are in your remembrance, but the most important thing for you now is to have faith in who you are.’

‘We do have faith,’ Andrija said.  ‘Our difficulty is articulating it, understanding it and rationalising it.’

‘We wish to tell you that we realise that we have asked much of you and have promised you nothing,’ said Tom in conclusion.  ‘And you have proceeded with faith, because within you you know.  Within all three of you, you have the wisdom, the knowledge and the strength.  Walk with humility, walk with love, and walk with the peace that is in you, for when you do this you generate peace around you.  We leave you now. We go with peace and love.’

 

 

Chapter Seven

Revelations  (Excerpt)

 

‘We were wondering when you would ask,’ Tom said when Andrija asked if there was any connection between the extra-terrestrial civilisations and the legend of Atlantis . . . Atlantis, Tom explained in reply to Andrija’s question, was a civilisation originated by a migrant group from Aksu.  It had flourished for thousands of years and had come to a sudden cataclysmic end about 11000 BC.  It had stretched from Greece to the Americas.  The name Atlantis was in fact a corruption, and it should be known as the Altean civilisation, for its people ‘were of the civilisation of Altea.’

 
Andrija asked, ‘Was the submergence of Atlantis an act of God or was it . . .?

‘We were angry,’ Tom said. ‘It was perhaps our ignorance in not understanding the density of the planet Earth.  We are more compassionate now.’  At the time of ‘the great anger,’ he further explained, there were some peripheral colonies that were not destroyed.  But also there were, on the main land masses that were submerged, some individuals ‘that were not of the nature of the majority,’ but they had been destroyed with the rest.  They had understood the necessity for the act, and when these souls had incarnated again they had chosen to come in a different physical form.  There were some of these reincarnated Altean souls on the planet Earth today.  ‘We are not sure that in the future their appearance in the manner in which they have appeared will benefit their soul growth,’ Tom said, but it was their choice, and with their understanding of the physical nature of their past experience they decided that perhaps in this form they could be of service in a proper way.  And they were incarnated as dolphins.

Thus was first introduced a subject that was later to be elaborated upon and to lead to some interesting field work.  Andrija did not pursue the subject of dolphin intelligence at this stage, however, but followed up the subject of the relation between the civilisation of Atlantis and that of other ancient civilisations.

‘According to the Platonic legend,’ he said, ‘the desirable elements of Atlantean, or Altean, civilisation were brought to Egypt.  Is this true?’

‘Yes.  After the destruction, you were each involved with the early civilisations of Egypt, Ur and China.’

 
Briefly summarising the story of Earth civilisations, Tom said: ‘That time [32400 BC, the time of the foundation of Aksu] was the beginning of the rising of civilisations and populations.  You understand that there was a collapse of the civilisation of Aksu.  Then there was of course the collapse of what you call Atlantis.  And then there was the collapse of Egypt.  And if you continue, there has been the collapse of many other civilisations.  And have you now discovered why?’

‘Well, from all you have told us,’ Andrija answered, ‘we understand that it has always collapsed when the desire life overcome the higher evolutionary development of the soul.’

‘That is in part true,’ Tom said, and went on to explain that the other part of the truth was that the people of Israel had failed to understand and to fulfill their historical mission.

 
Now as regards Atlantis: all the theories about the nature, location and dating of this prediluvian civilisation are highly speculative, but Tom’s dating corresponds with the general view that a cataclysmic event, the origin of world-wide flood legends, took place between 10000 and 12000 BC.  In Plato’s Critias there is a passage about the reason for the destruction of the Atlantean civilisation which Tom’s account corresponds with, and which also suggests that the people of Atlantis were a hybrid species: ‘When the portion of divinity within them was becoming weak and faint through being oft times blended with a large measure of mortality, and the human temper was becoming dominant . . . Zeus, the God of gods, desired to inflict punishment upon them.’  The punishment, according to both Plato’s and Tom’s versions of the story, was inflicted overnight, and resulted in the submergence of the civilisation of Atlantis.  It is interesting to note in passing that the trio later learned that Zeus, Altea and Atlas were synonymous.

 
While we are on the subject of recondite knowledge, I should like to bring up one more point.  In the course of a discussion in which John was trying to get a clear distinction between the Supreme God, minor gods and superior beings, Tom said, ‘We in truth are Aeons.’  And in an earlier communication he had suggested that all their people connected with their work might be collectively known as ‘messengers of the Aeons.’  Now, the term ‘aeons’, meaning an eternity, is quite commonly used, but is used in the sense of ‘a being beyond space and time’ is only to be found in certain rare texts of the Gnostic philosophers.  Moreover, there are other aspects of the philosophy of the communications, which I shall discuss in the final chapter, that have much in common with the esoteric philosophy of the Gnostics.

After spending the festive season separately with friends and family, Phyllis, John and Andrija reassembled at Ossining at the beginning of January 1975.  The two months they spent there before returning to Israel were not externally eventful though they were not lacking in drama at the interpersonal level. Communications were held every three days, and familiar subjects were elaborated and some new ones introduced.  The series began on 3 January, with a talk by Tom on the subject of doubt and belief, which they all found very pertinent after having had three weeks to think over the events of the past months.

‘You have doubted yourself, Doctor,’ he began. ‘You have doubted your ability, and you have doubted that within you and within the three of you, you have the power to accomplish all that we ask.  We wish you from this moment to remove your doubts.  When we inform you that you three have the power and the love and the strength to prevent chaos, tragedy and loss of life on your planet we mean this with all that we are, and we ask you to remove your doubts.’

‘Thank you for that strong reassurance,’ Andrija said.  ‘John and I do live with doubt and questions, based on the fact we cannot see the results of our work, for example when we were in Israel last month.’

‘We understand that, and there will come a time when that problem will be removed.  But may we ask you to hold in your heart the faith that you have in knowing that this universe is not operated by chance or simply by what many people on the planet call nature.  You are aware of and do not doubt this, so may we ask you to remove the doubt that you have within you the energies to do what we ask.  Do you understand of what we speak?’

‘Yes, we understand,’ Andrija said, ‘and I think it’s a very relevant lesson for both of us, and…’

‘Can you see God?’

‘I cannot, no.’ 

‘Sir John, do you believe that there is a God?’

‘Yes, I do.’

‘Then if you can believe that, why can you not believe that you have the ability and the energy and the power?  For remember this ability and energy and power comes from the, love and the desire within you, and when I say desire I mean the desire to help, which is different from the desire which seeks to control.’

Andrija asked how the existence of doubts in them had affected the work, and in explanation Tom used the analogy of a cable consisting of millions of copper wires.  If some of the wires were broken, he said, it would not break the cable, but the cable would not be perfect and communications going through it would be affected.  ‘You have doubts,’ he concluded, ‘because in your explanations to yourselves and to each other you cannot comprehend the nature of who you are.  Yes, Sir John?’

The inquiry must have been prompted by an act of mindreading, for John did have a point to make.  He said, ‘One of my main difficulties is our acute awareness of our, inadequacies on a physical level.’

‘Sir John, you are not so inadequate as you would like to believe.  To believe that you are inadequate may be used at times as an excuse,’ Tom said shrewdly.

Andrija suggested that it would help their understanding if Tom could give them a specific example of an occasion when their doubts had adversely affected the outcome of some project.  But, Tom explained, that hadn’t happened; projects had been accomplished in spite of their doubts.  Had he not said that the cable with the defective wires would not break but it would be weakened?  He referred to the incident of their last day in Israel, when their car had been immobilised near Yavneh for an hour.  ‘You prevented an explosion which, if it had taken place, the three of you would not be in your physical, you would have been returned with us.  We cannot prove that to you, but must we have an explosion to prove to you what we say?  You have come here with complete faith.  That is your mission, as it had been in many of your existences.  But sometimes we peer at you and we say, “The three of them have forgotten who they are, and they are trapped in the physical and the thinking of the physical, because in the physical it is necessary to see an object or to hold an object in order to believe.”  But you, Doctor, above all, should understand, for what you have accomplished in your years could not be seen before.  Parts of the secret knowledge that you have held within you for many years have now been proven to this physical world.’

‘Yes, that’s very true,’ Andrija said.

Sixty-three per cent of the people in the United States, Tom said, were now aware of the existence of other beings, and were beginning to ask, ‘Who are they?’

‘Yes, and not only that,’ Andrija said, ‘but they also ask, “Are they good or evil?” ‘

‘When they ask that,’ Tom said, ‘you must say, “They are good, and they wish to help.”  And if there are those who say, “But we have seen those of evil, then we would ask you to ask them to look within themselves and to understand that within each physical being there are all the elements of good and all the elements of what they call evil.  But we do not like that word “evil.”‘

‘No, neither do I,’ Andrija said.

‘I’d like to return to the subject of doubt and belief,’ John said.  ‘I understand completely what you say about the effects of doubting, but on the other hand I think that blind faith can be equally dangerous, and that for us to draw the fine line between the two is difficult.’

‘We do not ask blind faith of you ever,’ Tom said.  ‘You must never just accept, and you must at all times ask questions.  But if you will review your communications you will find that many things that we have related to you have already come to pass.’

‘Yes,’ Andrija said, ‘John and I have been reviewing some of the tapes over the past week, and we are quite astounded at how much we have grown over the last few months under your tutelage.’

‘Remember that we have grown with you, because when you grow, we grow.’

‘That’s a difficult one,’ Andrija said.  ‘I mean the idea that growth potential still exists at your level, the level of the Nine, is quite amazing to us.’

‘It is because you are in the physical and we are in the zone called cold,’ Tom explained, ‘and through you we are growing in understanding of the physical.  If some one relates an experience to you, you might believe it but you will not have had the emotion, and what has happened with us is that because there are three of us attached to each of you and we are within your emotions, we are beginning to learn and to understand.’

‘That’s interesting,’ Andrija said.  ‘We didn’t realise that you were getting a refresher course in Earth experience.’

‘It is not just Earth, Doctor, it is the physical.  The Earth is only one of many physical planets, but it is the densest, which is unfortunate for you but means that it is the best place for us to learn.’

Concluding the session, Tom said: ‘We have begun a new time in your land and your universe, and it is a time for you to drop and to remove the string that attaches you to the past time in the physical, and to remove also your doubts.  We ask this of you, and we know that it is much, and we know that it is difficult for you to prove what you say to those around you.  But it is not necessary, for the proof will come in time.  In this world in which you exist, they use a term, “Happy of your New Year.”  We wish to say to you, “Happy of your New Universe.”‘
  

Chapter Eight

Walking On Eggs

 

Back at their hotel in Nazareth that evening, they held a communication in which they elicited some of Tom’s fullest and most coherent statements on the subjects of cosmology, philosophy and teleology.  It began with Andrija asking the question: 

‘Are the Nine the ultimate source of knowledge, wisdom and power in the universe?’

‘The Nine together are what you would call the infinite intelligence,’ was Tom’s answer.

‘Yes, well, we speak of “the fountainhead” or “the unmoved mover,”‘ Andrija said, ‘and in our theologies the idea is common that God initiates the thought but the action is always carried out by others, by subsidiaries.’

‘That is correct.  It is by the civilisations.’

‘I see.  And didn’t you indicate at one time that there are twenty-four civilisations?’ 

‘No, there are many.  But there are twenty-four heads of civilisations.  It might be compared to your Congress.’

John put in a question: ‘And are all these working on the positive side?’

Tom had to remind him of one of the basic tenets of the philosophy of the Nine.  ‘Sir John, the positive and the negative must be blended to make it whole.  As we have explained to you, to be positive without sense is not good.  They are the balanced civilisations.  When you speak of positive, Sir John, refer to it as a balanced positive.’

‘Okay, I think we understand that part,’ Andrija said.  ‘To take Jehovah as an example, I assume that he is one of the twenty-four and under him is his civilisation, Hoova.’

‘Yes, and there would be, like a pyramid, many civilisations under that.’

‘Okay.  Now let’s take human existence.  Where do human beings come from, why do they come here, and where do they go?’

‘All beings and species come from us,’ Tom answered.  ‘Your questions: Who am I? Where did I come from? and Where am I going? are asked by all, and the answer is that all species and all beings are particles of us.’

‘And they go through many existences before they reach Earth, is that not so?’

‘It may be.  But remember, the planet Earth is not so evolved.’

‘So is there a regular sequence through which they must go before they come to this planet and through which they go after leaving it?’

‘No.  It depends on the needs of the soul.  There are levels of intelligence and there are levels of consciousness, and some souls need more than others.  Visualise a giant electric spark and smaller sparks coming off it.  Each of those sparks would be part of the giant spark, which is us, and each would either die out or continue to grow. Some would create a fire and some would grow slowly.  It would depend on the ambition of the spark.’

‘Now when that spark cycles through Earth and achieves its full growth,’ Andrija said, ‘does it go through other civilisations or does it return directly to you?’

‘It must continue for millions of years,’ Tom answered, ‘but it cannot continue if it stays upon the planet Earth.  If you recall, in a previous conversation we have explained to you that the planet Earth is the only planet in the Universe that has upon it the variety of animal and the variety of plant.  It is of all the planets in the universe what you would call the most beautiful because of its great variety.  This attracts the souls, and they have desires to remain upon it.  In other civilisations the souls have feelings and all the qualities that you have, but existence is more physical upon the planet Earth.’

‘If I may ask a very broad question,’ John said, ‘what is the soul’s purpose in existing in all those different civilisations?’ 

‘If a soul becomes what you would call perfect, then it is . . .’ Tom began, but he stopped abruptly and said, ‘If we explain this to you, Sir John, you may think that we are cannibals.’

John and Andrija laughed and Andrija said, ‘Well, I think you know us well enough to know that we won’t jump to erroneous conclusions.  Let’s put the question this way: if we had to tell a human being what the purpose of life is . . .’

‘You may tell them what has been told to them many times but has not been clearly understood: that the purpose of their existence is to return whence they came.’

‘In other words, to be swallowed up by you,’ said John with a laugh, now appreciating the ‘cannibals’ reference.

‘And while they are on this Earth with all its problems,’ Andrija said, ‘what is it they can best do in order to return to the source?’

‘If they treat all as they would desire to be treated, if they walk in dignity and neither attempt to remove from another nor permit to be removed from themselves their dignity, and if they have love for their fellow men and for all that they come in touch with, this in turn sends love to us.’

‘So in essence,’ Andrija said, ‘we may say that God feeds on this kind of nectar, this love?’

‘Yes.’ 

‘And is this love totally immaterial?  Is it something that has no material or physical existence?’

‘It is an energy.  It is not something you may hold in your hand.  It is a spark that emanates and grows and becomes a shining sun and then returns to us.’

‘In the future,’ John said, ‘we are likely to be asked, “What is God?”  Of course we have some idea ourselves, but we would like to be able to give consistent and understandable answers to those who ask.’

‘Sir John, what is God to you?’ Tom asked.

‘Well, there are various ways I could answer that.  I could say that God is the Nine, or is a unified intelligence . . .’

Tom interrupted to take up John’s last phrase and expand it to: ‘A unified infinite intelligence supported by pure love and which grows with pure love.’

That was a conversation stopper.  John and Andrija were both silent for a time while they took in this elegant and elliptical definition, then Andrija resumed the questioning:

‘Now, how do the other creatures on the planet Earth fit into this cosmic scheme of things?’

‘They have more love and more understanding of us than many humans,’ Tom said.

‘And do they also come back as sparks directly without having to go through a human form?’

‘They are never of a human form.  They are upon the planet Earth in order to make the souls there ask, What created this?  How did this come to be?  They are here to jog the mind.  Do you understand?’

‘Yes, I think so,’ Andrija said.  ‘For example, at Megiddo today we were watching two hawks.  They were mating on the wing and they were incredible and beautiful, and we wondered about them.  They live in such freedom and, apparently, love, and . . .’

‘It is the purest love,’ Tom said.

‘Yes.  So would their soul spark if it achieved perfection go directly back to you?’

‘Our doctor, you must understand that of all the creatures that exist upon the planet Earth only man and the porpoise has an intelligent soul that is a spark of us.’

 
. . . Tom gave an interesting comment on the subject of Armageddon: ‘In your physical world, when there is a war there are portions of that war that remain in the mind, portions that are memorials to freedoms and also memorials to slavery.  What was happening last evening was one of those memorials.  It was partly a physical battle, but it was more of a mental power struggle for the gaining of the minds.  You understand that in this battle you call Armageddon the important thing is to gain control of the souls and the minds?’

Which prompts a brief digression.  Several of the present day ‘awareness’ psychologies and techniques maintain that man is kept in confusion and his development is retarded by what they call ‘uncleared engrams,’ i.e. residual memories or emotions from earlier stages of life or from former lives.  Tom seems to be saying much the same thing in this passage, and I think the idea helps us make sense of the concept of the Battle of Armageddon, particularly if we recall also that thought, and therefore memory, is an energetic field phenomenon.
  

CHAPTER NINE

Anatomy of a Mystery

Alleged identity and abilities

 

Tom states repeatedly in the communications that he represents, as spokesman, and is one of the Nine governing principles and powers of the universe.  ‘But,’ he insists, ‘we are not God.  All of you and all of us make God.’  He is always insistent that man’s tendency to worship and deify what he does not understand only inhibits his own and the planet’s development.  ‘We are not your gods,’ he says, ‘we do not rule you or control you.  We are all one and we work in harmony with you.’  Men have conceived God as being omnipotent and omniscient, and according to Tom this erroneous belief has made the work of the Nine very difficult; Far from being omniscient, they are puzzled by the ways of the world and of men.  ‘It is important for us to learn, through you, of the nature of the physical,’ says Tom, and again, ‘We cannot do for this planet what this planet must do for itself.’  But if the abilities of the Nine and their associated civilisations are limited, they are certainly impressive by human standards.  They include mind-reading, prophecy, materialisation and dematerialisation, the ability to interfere with the mechanisms of motor cars and clocks, to mention but a few.  Such alleged abilities, particularly the psychophysical ones that suggest an advanced technology, would argue in favour of possibility number 5 if they could be both consistently demonstrated and proved to be effects with no conceivable natural causes.  But the Nine, according to Tom, are disinclined to produce signs and wonders to order, for they have tried such tactics in the past and have only been deified for their trouble, which annoys them because it is man’s co-operation and not his worship that they need in order to accomplish their purpose.

This is a coherent attitude.  Tom exhibits a robust intelligence and a consistency of purpose and attitude that is suggestive if not evidential of his independent existence.  As William James remarked, most mediumistic trance utterances have ‘a generic similarity in different individuals’ and consist of ‘a curiously vague optimistic philosophy-and-water’ and could have been written by the same author.  The Ossining group’s communications do not fall into this category.  Whoever or whatever Tom is, he is impressively original.  But of course so are the people he is involved with.  The question is, is he original in a different way?  One way of approaching this question is to consider how he interrelates with the others.
 

The Only Planet of Choice

 

4

The Council of Nine

You might well, rightfully, have wondered who these beings are, who call themselves the Council of Nine.  Where do they come from?  Council for what purpose?  Why nine?  Why haven’t they been splashed over the annals of history?  Here, the Nine are going to explain themselves, through Tom.

GENE: To whom am I talking?  Do you have a name?

Tom: I am Tom.  I am the spokesman for the Council of Nine.  In truth I am Tehuti.  Yes.  I am also Hamarkos, I am also Herenkar, I am known as Thomas and I am known as Atum.(1)

1. Tehuti was one of the most important gods to  the ancient Egyptians, and was regarded as one of the oldest.  The Egyptians believed that Tehuti brought them civilisation, arts and knowledge, giving them their knowledge of building, mathematics, music, writing, surveying and astronomy.  The Greeks adopted him as Thoth, who was akin to Hermes, the messenger of the gods. 

Atum is the source of the name ‘Tom.’  Atum (Atem, Turn, Temu), is virtually the same as the well-known Egyptian god Ra, born out of Nunu, the primeval abyss.  Temu was the god who created himself and the Universe, his name meaning, approximately, ‘the complete one.’  Although we use the term ‘he,’ Atum or Temu was asexual.  Atum was a member of the Ennead or Great Nine, made up of Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Gebb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephthys.

Harmarkos, or Re-harmakkis, and Herenkarwere Egyptian metaphysical beings representing the higher or supreme self, linked to Atum.  Thomas is a name which Tom first used when contacting Phyllis psychically — in order to be noticed by her, he adopted the name of her deceased grandfather, Thomas.  He later corrected this when she was in a position to accept his true identity.

Gene: Are you one of the Nine or are you a separate being?

Tom: I sit in the Council of Nine, yes.  I am one that is in wisdom that speaks to you.  But the Council has said that, in communications, at times I sound not wisdom!  Yes.

 
Andrew: I was particularly interested in ‘Hamarkos.’  Could you tell us . . . 

Tom: I am the day, and I am the evening, and I am the mid-noon.(2)
 
2. This refers to the One God, Temu or Ra, in the three aspects of Khepri, the morning sun, Ra, the noon-day sun, and Atum (Temu) the setting sun.  Later on, this one god, who had no counterpart, offspring, associate or equal, was later (Vlth Dynasty) usurped by Osiris, but this scheme preceded this change.  With regards to  the line which follows, the sphinx was a representation of Atum.

Andrew: So did the Egyptians name the Sphinx after you?

Tom: You found the secret.  But the original time that I was on the Planet Earth was 34,000 of your years ago.  I am the balance.  And when I say ‘I’ — I mean because I am an emissary for the Nine.  It is not I, but it is the group.  And the principle of the Nine is infinite intelligence, and what we try to bring to this planet is this type of intelligence.

We are of nine principles of the Universe, yet together we are one.  We are separate and one at the same time.  Each represents a portion of energy, knowledge, wisdom, love, kindness, technology, and continuity, and each principle applies itself until each portion of a spiral is composed of all that is important to bring complete understanding to each atom, and so on, until it becomes one with us.  There are in actuality multiplications and more, but in principle there are nine.

We are what is identified [in the Hebraic tradition] as the Elohim.(4)

4. The Elohim were noted in the Book of Genesis as being the creators of the word ‘Elohim,’ means ‘many gods’ — although in the Bible, this is confused with the Hebrew word Adonai which means ‘Lord.’  The singular form is ‘Eloha’ — use of the plural clearly indicates several beings. 

Tom: (cont’d) We wish you to know we are not God.  We are a collective and become one with each other.  We wish you to know that we are you as you are we.  You created us, and out of that creation you were created. 

Do not underestimate who you are, and your ability.  Know that all people are in essence pure, that you are perfect, and that all things are possible with you.  Know also that we cannot exist without you and all souls, and neither can Planet Earth nor the Universe.  When you understand that, you will understand your own life. 

At times in your world people create confusion, for the density of it is a density of darkness.  But always hold the light of truth of your own being, who you are, in your heart.  We are with you always.  We give you love, we bring you peace.

Andrew: If I may just give you my conception of what you are like: I gather that you are pure light-beings, in a sense that we don’t even understand, because you exist at a velocity beyond light . . . 

Tom: It is beyond your comprehension.

Andrew: Yes, but essentially you would be of that nature rather than anything substantive . . .

Tom: That is true.

Andrew: . . . something beyond photons, beyond tachyons [the least divisible known quanta or subdivisions of light].  And secondly I would assume that you are more of the nature of what we call ‘soul’ than any other thing we can imagine . . .

Tom: We are soul.

Andrew: You are soul.  Now, in your relationship to the Nine for example — are the Nine of the same nature as you are?

Tom: We are one and the same.

Andrew: I see. And then could you explain the profound mystery why there are nine basic manifestations of, I guess we should use the word ‘God,’ for lack of a better term?

Tom: I will try to explain it in a manner in which you may understand.  Nine is complete.  Everything is nine.  In your world you have said seven so many times, when everything is truly nine.  There are nine chakras, (6)

6.  Nine chakras.  The chakras are subtle energy centres within the body, traditionally seven in number: the root chakra between the legs (controlling our survival instinct); the sacral centre three finger-widths below the navel  (controlling sexuality, reproduction and emotion); the solar plexus, a hand-width above the navel (the seat of the will); the heart chakra (the source of love); the throat chakra at the base of the throat (source of communication and much of our thinking); the brow chakra just above the eyebrows (seat of understanding and inner vision); and the crown chakra at the top of  the head (our cosmic connection with divinity).  From what the Nine say, there are two further ones which have nothing to do with our individual nature of existence, one below the root chakra and one above the crown chakra.  These are presumably gateways of cosmic energy and information which relate to the deeper recesses of the unconscious and the highest realms of the superconscious, respectively. 

Tom: (cont’d) which are the nine principles and nine elements of what you call God.  There are nine bands around this planet Earth.  There are nine etheric bodies, and the purpose of growing your etheric bodies or going through your transformations and transitions is to attain the nine etheric bodies.  Nine is a complete number, it is whole.  When you go over a nine it cancels, it becomes one, and a nine is complete.  This does not change.  But remember this: we ourselves are not God.  All of you and all of us make God.
 
 
Andrew: What part of the Universe do you work in, or what is your management . . .
 
Tom: We are the Universe.
  
Andrew: Now, in this Universe, there are worlds of matter, antimatter, photons, rays, energies, particles and more. Which part of this domain do you exist in, or is it beyond our comprehension?
 
Tom: It is beyond your comprehension. We come from the zone that is cold. This is perfection.
 
 
Tom: We are in the centre.  And we do not wish to sound as if we are egotistical, but on either side of us there is the positive and there is
the negative.  And when I say this I mean there is the positive that is not balanced, and there is the negative that is not balanced.  We are in the centre, and we are balanced.  We are trying to bring other forces into balance.  We have never been out of balance.  It is other things in the Universe that are not in balance.  We exist at the pivotal point of the Universe.  There is a balance.  Within each of you there is all of the positive and all of the negative of the Universe.  Do you understand? 
 
 
Andrew: We do have difficulty understanding what is negative and what is positive, in respect of what is called ‘good’ and ‘bad’ on the human level.

Tom: It is difficult in your physical world for you to truly understand the importance of both.  I will try to explain in a manner in which you may understand.  It would be similar to a giant scale.  We are in the pivot of this giant scale.  Visualize the Universe with the pivot being us.  On one side of the Universe, visualize that all is negative, and all on the other side is positive.  And as you see this, you know that there is a complete out-of-balance situation.  

 
Tom: Because of the ignorance of the peoples of your planet, and because their religious leaders have taught ignorance, negative forces, which do not truly appear as you see them, manifest in order to instill fear.  But what is truly negative — listen carefully — what has created the upset, besides the desires and the greed, is the complete denial and misinterpretation of the existence of ultimate reality.

Your over-population is because of the trapping of spirits, because of reincarnation.  So the Earth people, the souls and spirits that surround your Earth need to release themselves of greed and desire, because that is the trap.  Your religious leaders do not understand this and do not teach the people.

Remember that in you is a seed of purity and beauty, and that if you do not maintain a balance, ugliness or an ugly part may appear.  But remember forgiveness.  We hold no animosity within us, and you should not do so either.  Even though you exist upon a physical planet and the densest of all the planets in the Universe, remember that all souls may be saved.  The only thing of which we are unforgiving is in the denunciation of God . . .

Andrew: Yes, I understand.  I think at times there have been occasions we have been guilty of that attitude.

Tom: This is a truth.  But remember to forgive when there is true acknowledgement.  May we say to you, to voice what you feel is one thing, but it is the act that is important.  There are many actors upon the world’s stage that play a different part than what they feel.  It is when they begin to feel they are that part, not themselves, that it makes a big difference.  They may say they love God, and they may say that they have understanding, but if they do not act in that way, then that is a graver problem, because it is not done in ignorance.  It is the same as when you give to another because you believe it obligates the other to give back, then what you give is not gold, it is black and putrid.

We wish you also to know that we do not have the need to be worshipped.  Our need from you is to be loved.

Do you know who is God?

Andrew: I know who is God in the abstract sense.

Tom: Do you know truly who is God?

Andrew: Not truly, no.

Tom: Are you prepared to know who God is?

Andrew: I would be prepared, yes.  I do not know what that means in terms of consequences, but yes, I would be prepared.

Tom: Love is God.  And it is love that creates the energy which feeds God — and makes God.

In your world there are religious groups that say that God is within.  And this is true because there is a portion of divinity within each individual.  But what we have told you is not the same.

Andrew: It took me a long time to square up with this, the notion that the Nine collectively are God, and that we all collectively are God . . .

Tom: Remember that as God we all carry a heavy burden but also we carry joy.

Andrew: Well, being in the centre, can you go on further to indicate how we stand between the negative and the positive?

Tom: Remember this: that the position that you have chosen in your physical world is limited.  But remember who you are.  Never lose sight of who you are.  And remember that in God all things are possible and will be done.  The problem is the limits of the physical mind.  And understanding.

And also remember that as God, in order to maintain the balance in your physical world, you must at times be detached.  Gently you must detach.  Because the work that conscious people on Earth have to do does not involve one or two individuals or the multiplication of those individuals.  The work you humans have to do involves the Universe.  And remember: God never fails.

In your physical world, you as God are being tested.  Not that God can be tested, but your physical limitations to yourselves as God are being tested.  And though we know that this may sound a contradiction to you, in being God and having a problem in the physical world, you must come to understand these problems of the physical world.  There are some of us who have never had this problem, and it’s difficult for those of us that have not had it to understand.  God is all knowing and is all-seeing but there are parts of God, as there are parts of every atom.  The whole together makes one, but not all parts experience the same.
  

5
 
God and Creation

 

Tom: It was necessary in the beginning to have a structured form of religion.  What was in error was those religionists that began to have control over others, and to make themselves important instead of the understanding.  Humankind is now revolting against this, and at this time there are those who are attempting to form a new religion.  It is the old attempting to take the new and mould it in its own dimension.  This is out of doubt and fear.  Remember that this is the only planet of complete and total free will.

John: We are likely to be asked in the future the question “What is God?”  Now we have some idea ourselves, but we would like to present a consistent and understandable answer to those who ask.

Tom: What is God to you?

John: Well, there’s many ways I could answer that.  I could say that God is the Ultimate, or Love, or . . .

Tom: It is unified, infinite intelligence, supported with pure love.  And it grows with pure love.  It is absolute faith and absolute love.  That is God.

If you have doubts that we exist we do understand.  But remember that in each of us there is God, and in each of us there is God, and God is love, and love is with us all.  And if you doubt our existence at times, then remember what I have said to you: with God all things are possible, and God is love.  And keep your love pure, because through this, then this planet and this Universe will be evolved, and we will all become one with God.  You are witnesses to divinity, to the Beingness that is the Universe.  And remember this: you also are the Universe, because you are one with divinity.

When you understand that you hold within each of you the total power to change all, and you accept that, you truly become a divine being.  When you also understand that what you term ‘religions’ have in reality emanated from physical civilizations of the Universe, you will begin to understand more about the Supreme One that is Unknown.

Do not create gods from physical beings, do not give power to physical beings — except inasmuch as you consider yourselves equal to them.  Understand that your planet Earth is on a precipice — if the pollutionary direction is not abated, it can contaminate your planet Earth to the degree that physical beings may not exist upon it.  It would not destroy it, but a physical being would not be able to live.

Most important: be joyful, and know that you hold within your core, your centre, your hand, the ability to create transformation.  You are not here by coincidence, you are here because you asked and chose to be so.  Know that because of you we exist also, and we love you for that.  Yes.

May we explain to you the one God?

Andrew: Yes, I would be most anxious to know.

Tom: Imagine an umbrella, and each of the spokes of the umbrella would then feed to the top.  And it is the top that is one God.  The energy is fed and becomes the One.  All of the many feed to the One, and all that becomes One.  But the One cannot exist without the many.  It is the balance and the harmony, and it is what keeps the Universe in harmony.  It is this system by which there is not one that is in more control than the other, but all are in control in unison together.  Do you understand?

Andrew: Yes, except for one point: does the One who is made of the many have an individuality of his own?  Can it, so to speak, talk back to some of the many, or is it the summation?

Tom: It is a summation but it may speak.  Do you understand?  You do not understand.

Andrew: Yes I do.  I think I understand.  It’s a very complex, sophisticated notion.

Tom: In the beginning there was One that understood that it needed to be many.  So all the many are in truth the One, do you understand?

Andrew: Yes, I see.  They became parts of the One in the beginning.

Tom: Yes.

Andrew: Yes, I have a sense of what you’re describing.

Palden: I wonder if you could comment on the Big Bang theory — recent satellite research [1992] seems to have strengthened this theory.

Tom: Altea has said it is this way.  You know of the Creator?  You know that what the Creator created was an energy.  You know that energy was in aloneness, in a void; and then in that aloneness, that which created, all-intelligent, had only itself — which was all knowing, all wonder, all creativity, encompassing all.

In the mind one can create a thought of expanding the mind within oneself.  That which created came to a realisation that expansion of all-knowing, of created intelligence, of forward expansion, would give more joyfulness, more quintessness . . ?

We do not know how to explain.  It is knowing and not knowing at the same time.  Over a period of time, if you play a game with your mind in your head, you reach a point in your mind where you know every game, is that not so?  Therefore, to make the game worthwhile, you need to create a game in which all parts have a choice to do as each part wishes, even though all parts are connected — it would then create a game in which you did not know all of the results, is that not so?  Is that not more jollyful?

Then the supposition came, how do we create that game?  The Creator is we and all.  It is you and all.  So what is the best way to create that game?  You can put it in a sphere and jumble it around, but then you would recognise every part within the sphere, would you not?  Therefore is it not better to release all energies to the most distant arenas?  That is what happened.  It was a releasing of the energy of the Creator that created.  The intelligence that said, ‘I know all I do, now I do not know all I do and I do know all I do.’  If you were to tell humankind it is a game, they would not understand.

John: Maybe it can be explained, because it is a beautiful concept, that the Big Bang is the greatest game in town.

Tom: Universe.  Is a town a universe?  Yes.  Council has said a town can be a universe, yes.

Palden: So you are confirming that the Big Bang astronomical theory of the beginning of the physical Universe, is the right kind of direction for scientists to follow?

Tom: That is correct.

Palden: There is a question related to this, which is to do with a statement you have made several times.  That is: ‘You created us, and out of that creation you were created.’  Can you explain this a bit more?

Tom: Do you understand creation?

Palden: I don’t know whether I fully understand it, but I believe I basically understand it.

Tom: Without you we do not exist.  Without us you do not exist.

Palden: The thing which concerns humans, is that we get the sense that the Creator created us, in a sequence of cause-and-effect.

Tom: It is this way: did we not explain that you and we are part of the created?

Palden: Certainly you have.

Tom: So the Creator, without all cells and particles, is not complete.  So when all cells and particles came together, that was the creation of infinite-intelligence-Creator.  Example: there is a forest.  In this forest there are many trees, and there are no humans, and there are no animals in it.  Those trees begin to fall, and there is none to prove that there was a tree.  For without the observation, there was nothing happening, is that not so? Without the ears to hear, there was no sound, is that not so?  Therefore, without those necessary ingredients for Creation, there was not Creation.

It is an exchange.  Then that which was Created out of its own creation — which is all that is created — got bored.  That is simple, is it not?  Then what did that-which-got bored do?  It exploded and sent all particles and so on to the far ends . . . there are no ends in the Universe.  Therefore all that is there knows all that all knows.  It only does not know that it knows that all knows.

We say this to humankind: each human knows in its innermost knowing that it is a part of the Creator, the one that is called ‘God’ upon Planet Earth.  They know they have come from the Creator.  Therefore if you come from the Creator, are you not part of it?  If a mother births a child, can you say that child does not contain part of that mother?  Even a mother who is implanted, that child still has the blood supply of the implanted mother, is that not so?  Then why is humankind not intelligent to understand that?  That which Created did not remove intelligence.  Does humankind prefer to remain ignorant, so there is no responsibility?

Palden: Often we behave like that, but at heart I think we don’t.
 
Tom: We know they do not.  Yes.
 
Do you understand that under us there are those that you humans call ‘gods’?

John: Yes.  As I understand it, although they are not in reality gods, they have often been called gods on Earth, is that correct?

Andrew: I think the best example we can think of is Yehovah, who is called ‘God’ by many on Earth . . .

Tom: That is true, he is not a god, and in a sense he is a god, do you understand the difference?  We too are God.

Andrew: Then there are lesser gods, you say?

Tom: Yes.

John: It would be perhaps helpful to have a definition of the word ‘God’ in that sense.  You say there are lesser gods, I’m trying to see what the word ‘God’ means.  In that sense.

Tom: We must explain.  We as a total are ‘God.’  One, do you understand?  ‘Gods,’ that is different, do you understand?

John: There is one God over other gods.  The other gods are the representatives of the one God?

Tom: Yes.  We are not representatives, but gods.  There are gods of light and gods of darkness.  Do you know why they are called gods?

Andrew: I presume because they have extraordinary powers that are something like those of God.

Tom: Of which we are.  Yes.

John: What I’d like to try to find is what would be the dividing line, because in a sense . . .

Tom: We in truth are ‘Aeons.’  We do not call them gods, you call them gods. You understand that in your physical world, anyone who is better than you is a god?

Andrew: (Laughing) Yes, that’s the general idea.  We have sports gods and love gods and all kinds of gods.

Miki: Could you give us an understanding of God the Creator?

Tom: When you speak of God, do you mean the one that creates all?

Miki: Yes.

Tom: There are those that are called ‘God,’ that are appendages to God, that also create.  But there is One, of the highest order, that is the purest of light, that is a composite of all, that creates all.  Each soul in the whole Universe came directly from the true Creator, so each soul is imbued with this energy.

There is a collection of beings that generate outward points of this source, but when they come together as one pure energy of community then that energy becomes what you call ‘God,’ that creates all.  Each of these entities has individual knowledge or principle, but not of the whole.  There is only one that has the whole.

When those energies that you call negative upon your planet Earth attempt to destroy, attempt to control others, it is because they are in competition with God, the one Creator.  For in their cells they know the divinity within them, and their personality holds forth, and they then attempt to be God.  It is sad, yes.

Miki: Thank you.  So in my understanding ‘God,’ so-called, also represents the negative side.

Tom: That is not so.  God created all, and that which became the negative went in competition with God: he does not represent them.  I will attempt to explain. You are a gardener.  As you know in your planting, as you plant each seed with equal love, with equal nurture, with all that is necessary for it to grow strong and straight, in a manner of purity, there are some that are weak and some that are strong.  There are those that you plant that become stronger to the point that they then may strangle others, is this not so?  Then you must remove, weed, transplant.  But the Creator does not weed, does not interfere in free will, as you do with your plants.  Then those who attempt to strangle and to take over others are fed by the energies of what you call negative, as we are fed by love, and they then begin to strangle all.  They go in competition with that that planted them, that that created them.  Is this some clarity for you?

Miki: Yes.  So originally, what is now the negative once came from the Creator — but did God leave them?

Tom: When you say ‘Did God leave them,’ we understand not.  Do you mean did he forsake them?  Do you mean he threw them out?

Miki: Yes.

Tom: No one can compete with God, for they have not truth within, for God is a collection of purity which means only goodness for all the Universe.  They threw themselves out by going in competition and having the desire to become all that is.  That is not possible, for in order to do that you must return to God.  That is the sadness: they had not patience for understanding.  They are attempting to disrupt the work of the Universe.

If you have one that you have loved, nurtured, fed, and have transferred great love to, and all you wished from it was for it to grow in beauty, straightness, flexibility, and love, giving as it has been given to, but it chooses not to do that, then there comes a time when you come to a realisation, that it must find for itself that it may not destroy others — and so in the Universe it is not discarded, but it is also not fed and supported, for that which loves it, it attempts to destroy.  What we are attempting to say is that God did not discard, but he does not help, for the negative refuses help.  Is that clear?

David: Can you tell me how you, as the Nine, relate to what we would call the Holy Spirit?

Tom: It is the Holy Spirit that governs us.  There is what you call the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit: dare we say to you, you are the sons and daughters, and through us emanates the one of Holy Spirit?  And then there is what you call the Father. 

From the Creator (the Primordial Parent) comes the divine inspiration, the verve, the logic, the spirit which infuses all Creation (the Holy Spirit), which is mirrored and completed by the souls of the Universe (the Son or offspring), some of whom are us.

John: I’d like to ask now about a biblical statement: “in the beginning there was the Word.”  Can you explain this in a way that we can begin to really understand what that means?

Tom: “In the beginning there was the Word”(2)?

2. The Gospel according to John, Chapter 1.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”  Holy Bible, Revised Standard Edition.  The correct Greek term for ‘Word’ was logos, which could best be understood as ‘inherent order’ or ‘design.’

Tom: (cont’d) — that is a translation error.  But if you take it to mean that the Creator came forth and said: “That that is, that that I am, will be.”  First, before the manifestation of any method or any creation there was the communication of Being.

John: Yes, I think I understand: what we would call ‘intentionality made explicit,’ and ‘thought precedes action.’

Tom: That is exactness, yes.  By adding communication it is strengthened.

Miki: I was thinking of the statement ‘God created man in his own image.’  Can you comment on that?

Tom: That means that all that God is you are; all that God knows you know; all that is good is contained within you; all that is pure is contained within you.  And know this, that God knows that in order to manifest spirit and soul within you, it is necessary, in order for that soul to function in a physical vehicle, to have two arms, two legs, the senses to see, or feel, or touch, or hear.  And you also have the sense of knowing.

Miki: Thank you.  Can you comment on the importance of consciousness?
 
Tom: Consciousness is that elevation of humankind into a sphere of connection with that that they created.  You know that you created God, and that God created you.  Do you know that?

Miki: No.

Tom: Do you know that God could not exist without your creation, and that you could not exist without His creation of you?

Miki: Yes, I get it now.

Tom: Yes. That is the importance of consciousness.

Ron: What I’d like to do is to read a portion of something that came through my head, and ask if it is correct, and then ask further
questions upon it.

Tom: Yes.

Ron: In the beginning the One breathed breathless by itself, and turning inward upon itself the tension was One, and became the manifold all, varying densities and intensities of matter and spirit, with the potential to become one union.  The Nine, the Civilizations,
humanity, and the Other kingdoms are each a part of all that is.  The infinite creation in its totality is the One infinite Being, the One Being which is aware of itself to the extent that its different aspects are aware of themselves, as part of all that is.

Tom: In the state of knowledge of your understanding, we cannot explain to you the truth of understanding the Universe.  What you understand is a portion of truth, but not all.  It would be very difficult to give to you an explanation.  For knowledge can be conveyed in words, but wisdom sounds foolish in words, and it is not able to be conveyed.  But what you have is an understanding in the framework of your understanding, and it is acceptable to us to convey that to those who might understand it . . . 

      
Tom: We understand the Earth plane, its entrapment, its density and its illusionary factor(4), yes.

4. The illusionary factor is the capacity we humans have developed to tell ourselves that things are like this or like that, when in fact they are not.  The perceived inferiority of women, blacks, children, some nations, animals, are examples of such beliefs.

Irene: It’d be fun to have you here.

Tom: The time will come when all of us will be in togetherness, at the time of the elevation and transformational density of Planet Earth, in its rightful place of existence as the paradise of glory, yes.

John: Where is that going to be?

Tom: Upon Planet Earth.

John: Whereabouts?  (Laughs)  I don’t ask when.

Irene: Your backyard!
  
Tom: You speak of an exact location: in that time all Planet Earth will be the exact location, for it will not be necessary to have those elements of mechanical.

John: Communication, you mean, won’t be necessary mechanically?

Tom: Not with that physical industrial mechanism.  You may flip your hair and you will go.

Irene: Great!  We’re ready!  Specifically, I want to go back to the Creation and the Twenty-Four civilisations.  Who created these civilisations?  Or were they in fact a creation?  Or were they in fact elements and particles that were brought together by you, but in fact they
already had existence and you gave them order?

Tom: That is a large question.  It was in this nature: there was one Creator, one energy, one pure light, one pure-being Self that contained all components of all that is.  It is extremely complicated, but in simplification, this Self came into that beingness, knowledge, and wisdom to begin to divide the components of which it consisted, not to remove them but to build a structure, the Universe.  For in its aloneness it had only self for companion.

That was not wrong, but it was more valuable to create a situation whereby there was a separate element — to create a universe that would then have the structure to give the atoms or cells that would be populating the Universe different environmental existences, in those proportions necessary for each atom’s attainment of its choosing.

It was then found, in the creating, through observing that which was created out of nothing, that there would be the necessity to expand and evolve this creating.  What would be the purpose of creating nothing out of nothing?  It was important to have created something.

So the twenty-four universal civilisations were created, as guides, elements of direction, elements of purpose.  Also they were created to govern and guide all over the Universe, in the context of that facet of universal reality that they exist in, as Ashan does with colour and sound and arts, or Altea with technology.

It was a way for the Creator to expand and provide and begin those elements necessary for further expansion, for once they were created, then the expansion would continue and it would go on and on.  Therefore the Universe needed the different elements that would make expansion purposeful.  If the expansion continued with only the creating of Universes, with no purpose, then it would have served no purpose.  Now have we confused you completely?

Irene: No, not only does it not confuse, this is the most brilliant thing I’ve ever heard!

Tom: It is important now for us to pray together, because it is the beginning now of a sequence, in which, if everything goes right, the result will be the saving of the planet Earth, and the understanding and awakening of the souls of Planet Earth.  And remember that when the souls of the Universe have calmness and joy and peace within their hearts, and generate love, it overtakes even those souls that are negative and dark, and brings life and love to them.

And can you imagine that what you have come to this planet to do, when you accomplish it, will cause the entire Universe to glow with a light that will seem blinding, because it will be a light of pure love.  And all will become one, and that is what all have striven for: it is because of humanity on Earth that this is possible for the Universe.

Tom: You are asking your relationship to us, is this not so?

Andrew: I was trying to define your existence, and then our existence, and then the relationship between the two.  And I might just prompt you with a question, for example: are the Nine considered the ultimate source of knowledge, wisdom, and power, and so on in the Universe?.

Tom: We are what you would call infinite intelligence.

Andrew: Alright.  And, if this is the fountainhead, or ‘the unmoved mover,’ then all your thoughts and actions are somehow put into effect through other peoples, or groups of beings . . .

Tom: Universal Civilisations.

Andrew: Ah, right.  Do you yourself initiate the intelligence, the thought, but the action is always carried out by others?

Tom: By the civilisations.

Andrew: And then at one time you hinted there were twenty-four major civilisations through which you acted?

Tom: When you say major, there are many.  But there are twenty-four heads of civilisations.

Andrew: I see.  They themselves are part of those many civilisations, or just heads of large groups of civilisations?

Tom: They are heads of groups of civilisations.

Andrew: And these are what the Bible calls a ‘Council of the Twenty-Four,’ and ‘The Elders,’ and so on?(6)

6. Holy Bible, Revelations, chapters 4 and 7.  Chapter 4: “After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door!  And the first voice said, ‘Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this.’  At once I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne!  And he who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.  Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clad in white garments, with golden crowns upon their heads.”  A dramatic vision indeed.  Chapter 7, v 13: “Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?’  I said to him, ‘Sir, you know.’  And he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night within his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter them with his presence.  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.  For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Tom: Yes.  The Congress.

John: One question about that: these are all working on the same side, the positive side, or . . . 

Tom: The positive and the negative must be blended to make it whole.  It is as we have explained to you: to be positive with no sense is not as good.  They are balanced civilisations.  Do you have that in clearness?

Andrew: I think we do now.

Tom: When you speak of positive, remember: refer to it as a balanced-positive.

Andrew: Now, under those Twenty-Four, could you give us an example of one civilisation?

Tom: When you speak of the Twenty-Four, you speak of the heads of the civilisations.  There is one you know of as ‘Jehovah’.

Andrew: Jehovah?  The God of the Jews?  And then around him is a civilisation?

Tom: Yes.  It is known as Hoova.  But he would have as a pyramid many under that.

Andrew: I see, there would be many civilisations, right.  Okay, now that clarifies that part.  Now take our existence as ordinary human beings.  Where do ordinary people come from, and why do they come here, and where do they go?  This is one of the great mysteries to us.

Tom: All beings, all species come from us.  There is a question that is asked by all beings, and all species, and it is what you have asked: “Who am I?,” “Where did I come from?,’ and “Where am I going?”  Is that not so?

Andrew: That is the question, yes.

Tom: All species and all beings are particles of us.  There is not a way for you to have this understanding.  How may we explain?

Andrew: Well, I have the understanding that they are part of you but they go through many cycles of existence before they reach Earth, is that not so?

Tom: The planet Earth is not that evolved.  We are looking for an analogy to give you . . .

Andrew: Well, could you say that those who come to Earth all come from another given civilisation or planet or something like that?  Or state of existence?  That is, is there a regular sequence or place through which they go before they come to the planet Earth?

Tom: Not a particular planet.  Depending upon the needs of that soul.  Some souls need more than some other souls.  There are levels of intelligence, there are levels of consciousness.  Not all are equal.

Remember this: it is not true that all are equal.  There is a soul.  The soul is a particle of us.  If you have a giant electric spark, and you put two together that would cause a giant electric spot, there would be sparks that would come off it.  Those sparks would be part of us — but each of those sparks would either die out or continue to grow.  Some may create a fire, and some may grow slowly, but it would depend upon the ambition of the spark.

Andrew: Yes.  Now, when that spark cycles through Earth, and achieves its full growth, does it go through other civilisations?

Tom: It must.

Andrew: lt doesn’t return directly to you?

Tom: It will continue for millions of years.  But it cannot continue if it stays upon the planet Earth.  If you will recall, we had explained to you that the planet Earth is the only planet within the Universe that has the variety of animal, plant, nature and environment.  It is the most
beautiful of all planets, because of the difference and variety.  This attracts the souls, and they have desires to remain upon it.  In other civilisations, the souls feel, and they have all the qualifications which you have, but it is more physical upon the planet Earth.

John: There is a very large question: what is the purpose of a soul?  In existing on all its civilisations and so on?

Tom: If a soul becomes what you call perfect, then it is . . . if we could explain this to you, in your mind you may feel that we are cannibals!

Andrew: Well, we want the truth, and I think you know us well enough to know that we would not jump to that kind of erroneous conclusion.  What we’re really asking is: if we had to tell a human being what the purpose of life is, what is the most succinct answer?

Tom: You may tell what has been told to humans many times, but was not given to them in clear understanding: that the purpose of soul-existence and the purpose of their living is to return to whence they came.

Andrew: Yes.  And how can they, while they are on this Earth with all its problems?  What is it that they can best do in order to return to whence they came?

Tom: If they would treat all as they have desire to be treated.  If they would walk in dignity and permit no one to remove their dignity, and if they would have love for all their fellow humans, and for all those that touch them — for this in turn sends love to us.  We ask not that they have a total understanding of us.

Andrew: Yes.  But in essence then, God feeds on this kind of nectar, so to say.

Tom: Yes.

Andrew: I think that people would love that idea.

Tom: We have the Creation, we have created this, but it in truth has created us.

Andrew: Now that part which, let us say, you feed on, is it totally immaterial, that nature of love — something that has no physical existence?  Since you are not material in any way, you must feed on something immaterial . . ?

Tom: It is an energy.  It is not something you may hold in your hand.  It is a spark that is a glow that emanates, and it grows, and becomes a shining sun, and then it returns to us.

Andrew: Yes.  I find that very beautiful and very satisfying, don’t you?

John: Yes, this is the upward spiral, I imagine.  Then it’s sent out again, on a higher level again, is that so?

Tom: Yes.  It is integrated.

Andrew: Now, how do the other creatures on Earth fit into this plan?  And I speak of birds and fish and cattle and so on . . .

Tom: They have more love for us than the humans.  They have a greater understanding of us.

Andrew: And when they live this way, do they also come back as sparks directly, without having to go through our human form?

Tom: They are not a human form.  They are planted and they have been brought to the planet Earth to give to the souls upon the planet Earth — how may we say? — for them to cause humans to ask in their mind: what created this?  How did this come to be?  It is to jog their mind.  Do you understand that?

Andrew: I think so, for example we were watching two hawks today, and they were incredible and beautiful, and they were mating, as it is the season for mating, and we wondered about their span.  They live in such freedom, and apparently, love and dignity . . .

Tom: It is the purest love.

Andrew: And we wondered for example, whether their souls would spark too?  If they achieved perfection would they go directly back to you?

Tom: They feed to us.

Andrew: And bees, for example, that collect honey, and are in tune with each other and their environment, do they feed you too?

Tom: Remember this, your planet is the only one in existence with this nature.
 

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Aliens and Visitations

 

John: I understand that the major spiritual events that take place from time to time on Earth can happen in many different forms.  Is the form of a landing chosen because of the sort of beliefs and understandings that people have at this particular time, in the space age . . ?

Tom: Humanity is now coming out of the true dark ages of this planet, and is now becoming aware of the existence of other lifeforms in other parts of this universe.  And humanity is now beginning to understand that there is more than themselves.  People have always assumed that there was someone sitting up there taking care of all their problems.  But they also assumed through their egos that they were the only existence that mattered to that which they called God, and that God was only concerned with them.  Humans now have to look within, and begin to understand that there are other forms of life, and that the Universe does not revolve just around humanity.

John: The beings that might come in such a landing, would they remain on the Earth to be teachers among people . . ?

Tom: There will be some that would remain, and there would be those of ours that would continue on, because this planet then will begin to evolve in its truest sense. We will then be able to go on and to work in other areas.  This has been a major project, and it has taken many hundreds and thousands of your years, and much energy.

John: The beings that would remain, would they collectively represent the Christ, or will the Christ be one of them?

Tom: You must remember that all of you and all of us have the Christ within us.  It will be a collective consciousness.

Andrew: Yes, there would be no great single figures that would . . .

Tom: You are all leaders and we are all leaders.

 
Tom: The preparation of the Twenty-Four civilizations in gathering forces is to make people upon Planet Earth aware and alert, to bring the prevention of greater difficulties.

Apocalyptic prophecies are not necessary to be fulfilled, if those that exist upon Planet Earth have awareness and understanding.  But also what is in prophecies — such as the Book of Revelations — may only be modified by the souls that exist upon the planet Earth.

Remember this: without meditation, without love for humanity, without prayers, without love for Planet Earth, there could be many serious catastrophes.  But with prayer and love it is possible to release the pressure.

When the time of decision on Planet Earth comes, all the Universe will be working in conjunction with humanity to release the pressures upon Planet Earth.  But if within you humans, and we speak to you all, if you generate great fear, then this negates part of that which the civilizations are trying to do — to prevent catastrophe.

It is possible to prevent catastrophe completely, and we would hope that could be done.  But there is a possibility that catastrophe will not be negated totally.  For there are those that oppose you, that are functioning to control the planet Earth.
 

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One last matter before we go

 

Guest: Tom, it’s nice to meet you.  Could you define who you are, please?

Tom: I am Tom, I am the spokesman for the Council of Nine.  We are the Council of Nine, we oversee what you term the Universe.  We are of nine principles of the Universe.

Guest: Whom do you represent — a higher authority above you that commands you and directs your ways?

Tom: This is difficult to explain to you, for the world has no similar situation, but we would say to you, yes, we are in connection with one that is higher, but in totality together we are one, as that of the Universe is one.

Guest: Do you have any purpose in our world, any major purpose or message? 

Tom: We wish you to know first that we are not physical beings.  Your world is the manifestation of Creation, and of the Creator manifest in your world, in the form of humankind.  You ask if we have a message to humankind?

Guest: Yes, I do.

Tom: We say to you: you have been created in the image of the Creator.  This world has lost identity with Creation.  What is of necessity is to understand the importance of going forth and creating action and deed that brings you to completion in who you are.  It is not enough to pray, it is not enough to gather groups of humankind for meditation.  What is of importance is to act.

Guest: Tom, according to what criteria did you choose specifically Phyllis as your spokesperson on Earth?

Tom: In times past our Being has been in contact with us and a servant of Universe.  In this life, what is important to understand is that each of you was chosen to return at this time of great importance, to bring about unification of Planet Earth.  Our Being agreed and has permitted herself to be utilised by us.  It is not that she is unique, it is that she is able to withdraw self completely and is able to become totally without self, so we may speak, yes.

Guest: Tom, if there is life after death, why it is so important to heal people in our world?

Tom: We wish yo convey to you the certainty that there is not a death as you know it, in the whole Universe.  You and each of you, the essence of you, your being, your soul, continue to exist always.  The importance of bringing the physical body back into balance is only for that soul to fulfill its purpose upon Planet Earth, for it to go on — the purpose is not for its physical life to be shortened, for its destiny and purpose then to be incomplete.

 
We wish each of you to know that Planet Earth is the physical vehicle for bringing forth into light-energies from that source that is all-knowing and that is filled with the greatest of love, for it is your love that sustains the universe.

Walk in humility and compassion, in kindness, and in love, and proceed in direction of dedication, if you wish, to remove the fears from humankind and to help humankind understand that reality is more than this physical existence, and that also Planet Earth may be, is, and can be the paradise it was created for.  For it is in truth the balance between the physical and the spiritual world.  We bless you, we love you, and we are in great gratefulness to you.

You are in a time of greatness upon your planet Earth — though you view it at this time as being in confusion — for it is in forward movement, even though the past wishes it to remain in the past.  If you can understand the nations of peoples that attempt to force upon others belief in their own  beliefs, then you must understand it is because of their doubt in their system of belief and their internal knowing — that which they have given themselves to is not truth, and therefore creates fanaticism that brings destruction.

The opposition that would wish to control your planet Earth benefits greatly from this energy, for in truth Planet Earth exists as the only physical vehicle that has such a quality of the joining of dense physicalness with what you term the spiritual.  It is a great vehicle for creating understanding and balance, and it is the only physical existence in the Universe of such great variety, created to be paradise.

It is the only physical existence in the Universe where souls have freedom of choice.  Therefore you have also a great responsibility in your choosing and in the direction of elevation of Planet Earth.  It is of supreme importance that you understand the qualities of yourself in relationship to the Universe, and in relation to your purpose upon Planet Earth.

Planet Earth is on the edge, and is of the consciousness that you know as the Christ, or the Messiah.  You must understand this: if you bring to Planet Earth your dedication and desire to make change, to create a place of great joy, and beauty, and peace, Planet Earth may then become what it was created for.  If the Messiah energy comes because of the need to save Planet Earth, for lack of participation of humankind, then there will be loss.

There will never be the destruction of Planet Earth, for that cannot be permitted.  That does not mean there cannot be some harm: therefore we ask you to move in forwardness and to take upon yourself that responsibility involving yourself, your family, your community, and your country of existence.

For if, each day, you make one movement in thought and one movement in deed that emanates from you, it is like a wave that may cover Planet Earth to great benefit.  In the same manner, if you do one thought or one deed of negativity, it helps bring destruction. . . .

 
Understand that your planet Earth is on a precipice: if the pollutionary direction is not abated, it also can contaminate your planet Earth to the degree that physical beings may not exist upon it.  It would not destroy it, but a physical being would not be able to exist on it, and then the opposition will have won the energies of the physical beings — for a time.

 
Gerry: Do you think on Planet Earth, people as a whole will always be in a state of imbalance, is this necessary?

Tom: This is the tragedy of Planet Earth, the imbalance, for it has stopped the forwardness of the Universe, it has bottlenecked.  It was not meant to be; it was meant for a soul to come to experience this balance of the two and then to expand itself into other realms.

We would pray with you that with enlightenment of understanding through your modes of mass communication, the inner spirit would identify and understand the importance of the choice of responsibility — you see when humankind evolves, and Planet Earth is able to fulfill all that it was created for, then you release all other civilisations in the Universe, for them also to be in choice.  Do you understand the importantce?

Irene: Yes.
 
Tom: We’ve never told this to you in the past.
 
Irene: So you’re saying this is a test?  We are in fact a test-bed for free will?

Tom: That is correct.
 

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Note from MRB: Many of the lessons articulated by ‘Tom’ of ‘The Council of Nine’ were expressed to me during the ‘paranormal initiation’ case study chronicled in Testament (1997).  As mentioned in my previous blog article “Readers of This Blog Can and Must Save the World” — Perhaps the main lesson in the book can be stated as an Earth life constitutes a ‘morality test.’