Matt 25:14-26 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?"
How you call this, "how one may gain POWER, in the will". Again, I say that there is only one will, and that is the will of the Universal Father. The Universal Father lend his Gifts to the minds of souls of man, that is called the Fragment of the First Source, and when you read passages of the Creator Son, you have to think about Prudence and Obligation to One's Master.
When you forget that the Universal Father is also a Great Master of the Universe, you might forget "you ought to serve the Universal Father". Nay, you should learn to love the obligations that have been given unto your hand to fulfill. How you interpret this, the master gifting his servants many talents, implies "the Universal Father's love for the Son (who is the master), and the Universal Father's willingness to love the Son's servants (who is like myself, in a very poorly reflected and very distorted sinful fashion I suppose)", if you think about the talents: that is a gift, and the theory of the Universal Father's indwelling the minds of mortal men, as in the seedsowing of time in the likeness of mortal flesh, you have to think about the many many gifts, throughout the aged history of Nebadon, before that the work of the Life Carriers to provide vessels of life that are capable of housing actual individualised sentience, as a mortal of an inhabited world. Very difficult to see, in the confusion of financial consideration, how "Life" was actually financed but try to see this from an evolutionary or universe-history perspective, the endowment of every mind in the universe beyond the Third Source and Center, how each one must have been raised in the prudence of eternal post-ultimacy.
When you arrive at the approach of post-ultimate eternity, unity of life, wow you can see a sacred course of emergence within the journey of every specie every inhabited world, and expecially in the minds of souls from those inhabited worlds (on the worlds of light and life), then you can see that if a talent is indeed given into your hand, into your heart or head, well from the energy, or the love, or the wisdom, that you possess, you should incorporate that new pattern and employ your greater resources towards the building of God's kingdom, God's mansions. A talent is not something with eternal life, but it is something that can grow in the wisdom of the human individual's own interests, just as a seed does not have eternal life, but it can die into the new generation that the tree offers to the world. As souls, you have to use your talents because eventually you not offer your talents to this world but to the grand universe in the most greatest capacities of unceasing service to the Universal Father, who is the First Source and Center, as your power will allow.
What choice is measurable, is first attenuated by your own lack of enthusiasm, zeal. If you look at the intellectual possibilities of time, and not the life of every moment, then you are basing your choices in the measurable outcomes of mathematics and rational possibility. If you find the Source of Life, you can develop greater wisdom, but first you would have to dedicated your own actions towards the garnering of wisdom. How a person develops power is the same as how a banker develops wealth, except this applies within a metaphysical context, of "the opening of one's heart to the total experience", that the fragment of the universal father attempts to eschew to the mind of the soul of mortal man. Indeed, this involves not only discipline, but the eventual identification of other souls, as God's Children, just as one may identify Christ Michael as one's own brother. Oh but other souls are like talents and truly given into your hand, how much more should you look at the dedication of one's mind to the doing of the Universal Father's will, if they are "given unto your hand", before even born into the womb of a mother, incredible. But just as an investor is called to increase the talents that his master has given to him, people should grow up with the notice of responsibility, in one way or the other, "to bring in souls to Urantia", to provide universal experience to children, and to raise children in the way that suggests, well I have known you all along haven't I?
_________________ to the Underlaying Unity of All Life so that the Voice of Intuition may guide Us closer to Our Common Keeper
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