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The first-ever funeral on Urantia led by the Father

My dears, I do desire to post more of my teachings on our website English version so that those who come across this site might get some message of love and light even as my brethren have been getting plenty of teachings of Love and Light from the Paradise Trinity-I AM and from me on our website Lithuanian version.
Thus I am planning not only to write new techings but also use my old teachings I used to send to my brethren in the Teaching Mission in the USA, Canada, Australia, and plenty of other countries if these teachings still have importance.
Below I share my experience - of a nine-year past - on my leading a worship service outside a regular living service at our Temple of the Paradise Trinity-I AM, as our living temple is called TODAY, while originally it was named after God the Father and His Son Jesus while subsequently - of the Paradise Trinity, even though it is the very same temple. Even this very change of the Temple name shows that we - Urants - are open to changing and expanding our outlook and relationship with Creator - from the worship of the Father ALONE to the worship of the Paradise Trinity, and eventually to the worship of the Paradise Trinity-I AM, given the fact that the Personality of the I AM is the UNIVERSAL DEITY PERSON OPERATING IN CREATION THROUGH THE THREE CO-ORDINATE PERSONS OF THE PARADISE TRINITY.
Peace be upon you.
With bortherly love,
Algimantas
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My dear and beloved brethren, last Saturday ( it is the July month of 2006 ) we burried one of our brethren from the Vilnius Urantia group.
I had been asked by his wife to speak out a word of farewell, first, in the so-called Funeral House where a body is usually placed to pay the last tribute, and, then, in the grave-yard, and, finally, at their home during the so-called dinner of mourning.
I did agree to do it. And I was planning to do it the way I lead our living service at our temple of God the Fater and His Son Jesus, only much shorter since people are not familar with this type of spiritual service.
Before leaving for the Funeral House I prayed at home and asked the Father to lead me during the service and to use me as a tool in His hands the way He usually does.
I was thinking as to how much of this NEW light I might introduce in this traditional environment that was exclusively Catholic, and rather fundamentalist at that. I did desire to provide the people with some comforting light
but not to blind them, and less so to scare them, for they, at least the absolute
majority of them, had never heard anything else apart from a traditional catholic prayer while attending church.
And it was such a big surprise TO ME, when the Father told me that during this service He would be speaking. I was puzzled and asked Him again for some clarification whether He would be speaking thru my lips as He would do either during my classes or service so that quite often I listened to what He was saying thru my lips as if from aside and feeling satisfaction at the thought expressed and even thanking Him for these thoughts. But all this process was transpiring in my mind, and VERY QUICKLY at that, so no one was able
to notice it, even to feel that it was not me saying some of the thoughts but my lips, while
I even marveled at what I was hearing, and therefore I was equally enjoying the teaching together with my brethren.
Thus in all these cases there was no specific identification of the Source of the Thoughts. He allowed me to take all the merits earned by Him. And Ialways thanked Him.
And I usually I start and end my classes with the worship of the Father and a short prayer for a spiritual unity among all.
But this time it was different. The Father gave me a wonderful commendation for carrying His word to my brethren and then very definitely clarified that it would be He who would be speaking thru me as an identified Source whom we knew as the Father. And He explained to me that it would be a proper
occasion to let His children know that He was within each of us and could speak out in a similar way thru each of us. This would be a new teaching to those present.
Imagine my condition.
I had a choice either to decline this Fahter's will or do it.
I continued to pray for the Father's spiritual leading and sustenance. And then submerged into a wonderful condition of love and bliss, and it was clear to me that the Father knows much better what must be done. I accepted
His will as mine and should DO it with love and care for Him and for the benefit of all those
present in the room, visible and invisible.
Even though it was hot, some 96 degrees in Farenheit, I walked all the distance from my residence place to the Funeral House, some 2.5 miles. And I followed my physical condition - all the way on my step was firm and rythmical. And it was strange that I could not
either speed it up, or slow it down, as if somebody was controlling my legs.
But I did not feel any discomfort. I felt vigor and peace at a time. While walking I was communing with the Father.
Having covered half the distance I sat down on a bench in a shade in a nice park at the monument to the first - and the only king - of Lithuania, for all the other rulers of Litrhuania were grand dukes. So this king, Mindaugas, was the first in Lithuania to have accepted Christianity in the middle of the 13th century.
I was sitting in a shade and worshipping the Father for five minutes.
And when I reached the Funeral House I saw plenty of people in the room. "It is for them that the Father shall be speaking", I thought.

Standing by the coffin I proposed that we would worship our Father. All the people stood up. I told them that for the Father it was imortant not the position of man's body but rather man's opened heart-soul for the communion with Him.
I worshipped the Father and then began to tell the people that this body, lying in the coffin, had worn out its energy. But that man, his personality, whom we had known was not in the body any more. He was on the way to the resurrection of his own self. I went on to say: "It is the Father, who gives us such an
opportunity to be resurrected once we discover Him within our own selves. He
gives His own fragment, His own spirit, called a Thought Adjuster, since He adjusts our own thoughts while we are asleep. And it is possible to talk to the Father of ALL. And right now the Father shall speak to you thru my voice. Thus my voice might acquire some different sound modality to which you must not pay attention.
Just close your eyes and allow the Father to reach your hearts."
When I began to transmit the Father's message to the people my voice became stronger, more powerful. Sometimes it was flowing faster, couple of times my mind was receiving the teaching of the Father in such a
way that my articles of speech did not manage to pronounce the words in the right
way, using correct cases and a correct word order thus in this case I had to repeat it twice in the right way.
And the message was to the effect that mortals ussually consider the so-called material death as the end. It is not true, as the Father has prapared for us so many worlds to enjoy our living and serving in love on these worlds that this mourning experience is unnecessary, and it is melting once humans discover Him within their own selves. His love, then, overfloods their hearts, and there is no
room for mourning and sorrow. The body has to get back to its original form, the
dust, since it is material and it has to desintegrate, but the one - personality - who has used this vehicle to do good to others and to commune with the Father from the very
depths of one's soul is always resurrected on the third day. And this beloved son of His, our brother in spirit, shall be resurrected, and even
more, he shall be informed about this new type of farewell to him.
The Father was noting that even those present in the room were feeling comfort and
peace within. And this peace was coming from Him. And He was urging all to open their hearts-souls to Him that they woud discover Him from within and then they would begin to feel that there was no end to their living for He had generated eternity, and it was in eternity that is the pathway to joy and peace where there is no death and sorrow. And those in the room shall share their new experiences with others and they would speak about new personal realities with Him. And love and peace shall prevail within their hearts.

These were such nice words of strengthening that I could not hold my tears.
Even though my eyes stayed closed, they were full with tears and my heart
was full with peace and the body was enveloped in some weightlessness.

Now I cannot recall much of what was said by the Father, but when I finished the transmission I was feeling such a bliss and fullness at a time.

I could not add anything to what was spoken out but in a quiet voice uttered: "Peace be upon you." And left the room.

After the funeral people were coming up to me and thanked me for sincere and
nice words. And I asked them to thank not me but the Father.

This was the first ever funeral in Lithuania, and maybe on Urantia, that the Father was teaching people DIRECTLY and not thru some quotations from SOME WRITTEN SOURCES.
And people's hearts were touched. There were no tears, no weeping, no sorrow, there were even... smiles. There was a sensation as if we were one FAMILY. There was some spiritual link among us.

And there were some comments expressed to me afterwards: "All you were doing it is a sort of science and a strong
suggestion." "It is moving but I will hardly be your follower right away."
"Divine words, so sincere. It is beyond my understanding."

While in the grave-yard I noticed how little children incredibly attentively listened to my words. They are those who open up their hearts much qiucker than their parents.

And I also felt a new stage of my growth, a new category of experience. And I felt a much stronger trust in the Father, and Jesus, and his Co-ordinate Partner in his Local Universe, Nebadonia...

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