Global Community Communications Alliance Member Profile
Landau
Greetings and heartfelt salutations from our Local Universe Father, Michael, and His Co-sovereign, our beloved Universe Mother Spirit! Peace be with you. Who am I? My new spirit-name is Landau, which means "Humility in Healing." The humility is first and foremost for my own healing, which can then be a gift to others. I believe that if I, along with others, can lift up our Master, the One Whom many of you know as Jesus, then He will draw all men to Him. And through Him all are then destined to find our Paradise Eternal Father. A number of you may find comfort in the fact that I myself am a first-light, home grown, soul of this planet, who arose from the groves of Orange, Texas. Actually, most souls, the percentage being 14 out of every 15 persons, on earth today are first-light souls, meaning that we've begun our long ascension career to Paradise right here on this planet. The other one-out-of-fifteen, for whom I have an extraordinary affection, have their origins elsewhere in the stars, and most of them have been on earth before in previous lifetimes. They to me are the significant others, who along with both first and second light souls are making this earth the most exciting and promising world in the entire grand universe. This is not because any of us are so great. It is because our God is so great. Even now our Gracious Father is arranging in His matchless tenderness and thoughtfulness to show us all how God returns good for evil!
So, my new spirit-name is Landau and I am one of the newer members of the First Cosmic Family on Earth. The thing you should realize here is that there are 7 cosmic families to be re-gathered on earth, and you most definitely belong to one of them. I have found which one I belong to and I challenge you to find yours. Even as we are all being re-gathered into our God-ordained tribes, each of us bring much color and history from our evolutionary and experiential roots. For example, my local name is Patrick Nicholas Lawrence and I can trace one shoot of my evolutionary roots to my great-great-great-great grandparents Henry S. Thibideax and Brigette Ballanger. My 'Batavia' Brigette Ballanger was a French Canadian woman from Quebec, Canada, a lineal descendant of Cartier, an explorer of that country. My 'Batavus' Henry Thibideax was an early governor of Louisiana. In my immediate family, I am the third eldest of 15 children born to Dewey Dee Lawrence, Jr. of Houma, Louisiana and Mabel Margaret Wingate of Orange, Texas. I graduated from a Catholic high school in Orange, Texas in 1964 and entered the United States Army a year later. Early in my military career, I was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant and served as a launcher platoon leader for North America Air (now Aerospace) Defense Command. Later, I was moved into military intelligence and served in that capacity in Vietnam.
Having sustained gunshot wounds to the right chest and shoulder, I returned to the United States in November, 1969 and was captain to a medical holding company until my honorable discharge in September, 1973. During that time I received a degree in nuclear physics and promised God that I would attempt a career in medicine. I entered medical school at the University of Texas, that very year. Looking back, this was my first giant step in coming full circle back into partnership with God. I had always wanted to be an astronaut. God our Father wanted me in medicine, and I really knew that since I was about six years old. My strategy had always been to delay God until He could finally see things my way. But in May of 1978, as I began to practice medicine in a small town in North Texas, I got the distinct impression that God was beginning to win in my life: God had most definitely found a way to effectively exploit me, and, despite myself, I found that deep down I really didn't mind.
By 1984, God had maneuvered his reluctant-but-interested partner, namely me, back to central Texas, near Austin, drawing 10 of my surviving 12 brothers and sisters into the same locale. I now realize that this was an important practice reunion for what is happening today around our planetary sacred home in Sedona. The same year, my Dad discovered he was dying of cancer, so he and Mom moved in with me and my own family so that I could attend to him for the last 3 months of his life. I promised God that if He would help me to handle the challenge of facing death with my Dad, I would write a book about Him and the brave children of His whom I had had the honor of serving during my medical career. God did help me through some very difficult moments and I wrote the book called: Dying to Live. But I didn't publish it right away. In December of 1987, I got the impression that God was urging me to find a publisher for the little book. I went to a mall in Austin to inquire as to how I might go about that. Instead I met a doctor friend whom I hadn't seen since medical school. He looked over the manuscript and decided that it reminded him of another book, The URANTIA Book. God had finally led me to The Fifth Epochal Revelation. My little book was so puny and primitive compared to this awesome tribute to God. Nevertheless, there was something mutually attractive between the two books. In my little book, the idea of Revelation-in-Progress ran from cover to cover, reflecting that God is revealing more and more of Himself to each of us every day of our lives. In other words, revelation on the inside is ongoing and never ending. Not in so many words, but laced throughout the tapestry The URANTIA Book was the same dynamic promise; that is, revelation is ongoing and ever upwards on the outside as well as on the inside. Hence, it would be no surprise to me at all to later come across the title: Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation!
I am certainly no artist. Yet, right away I began to make pictures and symbols for the celestial spirit family so eloquently described in The URANTIA Book, which coordinated the new revelation with my own memories of my earthly home family. I called the pictures "Spiritkind" and "Family Tree" and "Heaven's Beacons" and so forth, and I tried to find other human beings who might also be feeling the nostalgia of homecoming and resonate with the spirit behind it. My family and patients were flabbergasted and perturbed for the most part, but I did find pockets of spirit and mind kindred in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Denver, and even Sidney, Australia. In October of 1993, 1 drove 25 hours to Boulder, Colorado to give some of the latest pictures to friends whom I had only known by letter or phone. Once in Boulder, I got the impression that the work I was doing belonged in Arizona instead. I returned to Texas to verify that impression. In my office mail was a letter postmarked Sedona, Arizona, inviting me to visit some folks in Arizona. The invitation was broad and not for me alone, but it was written by a celestial spirit hero of mine, an Emergency Son of God from the capitol of our universe. The celestial spirit's name was Machiventa Mechizedek!
If you haven't yet heard of Machiventa Melchizedek, just hang around. He is more than just our spirit celestial Planetary Prince. He is the ultimate in ambassadors. He is the ambassadors' ambassador. But you won't get this kind of talk from him. You'll hear it from everyone else, everywhere else. Soon there won't be a diner in this galaxy that won't claim that they know all about Machiventa; some may even boast that he's eaten at their tables more than once! He was on this planet in the days of Abraham and he is behind the scenes in Sedona helping to develop the Starseed and Urantian Schools of Melchizedek, a living student body for Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation. His motto is "Character acquired by enlightened experience." What this means is that the elders and teachers provide the enlightenment; life's circumstances and the ascender's status are what afford the opportunity for experience; the wise utilization of these two is what builds character!
The Melchizedek contribution is to restore the pride in being an ascending son or daughter of God. The Global Community Communications Schools have been brought to Earth to espouse a proud and eager reception to the Master's assurance that we humans are also God's beloved children. If God is our true Father, doesn't that make us beloved brothers and sisters? Once we know that we belong to God, and that we share both His Way and His Truth, isn't it safe to say that we belong to one another? Don't you just ache to let the God of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness rule Supreme in your heart, and don't you want to be around others who wish the same? Don't you think that the best way to rule a planet is to install the Golden Rule back into the Family, where everyone knows who he is, and where he belongs? If you do, I know a place where dreams really do come true! I am Landau. In the song-words of Gabriel of Urantia, "I just want to be your friend. I just want you to know me. I don't want to be your enemy, for oh, I love you so, my Friend!" Come, Come, Come! There's just no sense in being strangers a day longer!
Your Always Brother,
Landau,
Minister
Vicegerent Elder
to Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase and the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star
Hello again, All you Friends and Seekers of God!
May the Peace of our Lord Christ Michael be upon you in this the most exciting of all times in the history of our planet and of our universe. I am Landau offering you my personal reflections, updating my contributions back on June 10, 1999. Today, I feel I must be more brief and yet more spirited than ever. In my opinion, never can the relationship between the will of Man and the will of God be better tested and upstepped than in the fusion furnaces of uncertainty and faith, as the physical reality that mortals have come to depend upon begins to crumble. Do I exaggerate or does Truth and the Spirit of Truth ring in your souls? Is your physical reality as comfortable as it was five years ago? Is it as comfortable as it was even one year ago? If you feel quite comfortable and satisfied, then that is one thing. But if you feel uncomfortable and that you and your world are being adjudicated, then read on, for these are most definitely the times which try men's and women's souls.
Over the past five years I have grown to see the working relationship between the words 'adjudication' and 'adjustment.' What they have in common, to me, is the need for our ascending souls to adjust to God's higher reality while freeing ourselves of misinterpretations and distortions of that reality based upon our unrealistic goals or over dependence upon our sense of physical reality alone. One thing I have done to do over and over is to redefine all of my prior ideas about life and death. For example, I have had to carefully review in my heart of hearts what Jesus meant when he said:
"I solemnly assure you, the man who hears my word and has faith in Him who sent me possesses eternal life. He does not come under condemnation, but has passed from death to life."
I thought I had a tiny fraction of a grasp of what Jesus was talking about in my mind, and maybe I did. But I didn't get it in my soul. I am beginning to get it now and in a very personal way. I believe I should share the spirit of what I am learning with you now.
To me, now in the year 2005 AD, passing from death to life means sharing everything that we have, including our lower physical senses, with the higher loyal spirits and especially with all Three of the Paradise Trinity. On Earth there is a good expression which says, "Get a life." Today, for me getting a life means sharing my life and responses to life's circumstantial reality with an angel who is loyal to Christ Michael and the Paradise Trinity. And I find I cannot sustain that atmosphere of sharing without the constant adjustments in the deeper recesses of my heart by the Thought Adjuster, or Indwelling Fragment of our Paradise Father. While I am still very awkward in my attempts to let this higher reality in, I can say that I am trying to do it day by day, even moment to moment. I believe that the more we try to maintain this hosting of God and his loyal celestial beings, the greater things can happen in the transformation of our world.
One of the greatest paradoxes of my life has been the admixture of the warring efforts and healing efforts within the same individual. Until now, that just didn't make any sense. Today, I realize that on Urantia, healing is a war, an intense struggle between the partial self and the Whole Self. In fact, Light and Life, for a fallen planet, can only be won by the heroic efforts and decisions of each and every dear and devoted soul who will let God into his or her life once and for all, and then will not let loose of Him, His Son, or His Spirit no matter what, come what may. Be a dear and devoted soul and help us to get God and this planet back together, starting with yourself, your own soul. After all, the next soul you save may well be your own!
Your Fellow Soldier ('Soul-dear'),
Landau