# Governance # Citizenship
How the wisdom coding system works **WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Type of wisdom** (purple box) **E** = Evolutionary wisdom **R** = Revealed wisdom **H** = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix) --- **Target audience** (green box) **P** = Personal **G** = Group (non-personal) --- **Type of content** (yellow box) **C** = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.) **O** = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.) **M** = Mix of both curated and original content. --- **Reliability factor of content** (blue box) **1** = High **2** = Average **3** = Low **X** = Cannot be determined. --- **APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)** \[ \] soil \[ \] Land \[ \] Sea \[ \] AIR - Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable. - Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously. - All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark. - For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/light-and-life-categories-by-planetary-jurisdictions "Light and Life categories by planetary jurisdictions"). - For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/4-jurisdictions-flow-matrix "4 Jurisdictions Flow Matrix"). --- **SOURCE:** This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.
Citizenship and sonship
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**SOURCE:** tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 31, 1997. Teacher Jessona T/R Jonathan
I am here to amplify through a visual description your understanding of citizenship and sonship. Picture a sphere. It is obvious that the center of this sphere is the Father. Every radial line to the surface of this sphere is your sonship. Every connecting link to every point upon the sphere is brotherhood in relation to your sonship lines to the Father. Picture now this sphere covered with marbles. As you do unto another you individually react with adjacent marbles, you being one of the many covering the sphere. This is ministry in a familial sense. Citizenship, on the other hand, is global and awareness in an ecological sense of the total. Every action you make affects every marble on the entire sphere. You understand the distinction between brotherhood and citizenship in this way. Citizenship is brotherhood in action. It is more than the awareness of your interrelationship in the arms of the Father. It is your decisive actions based on this awareness. You can have citizenship without the understanding of the family of God, but you would be left with a hollow sphere. Every individual has an important position. Though some of you may rise as do your great mountain ridges upon this world to heights that stand above others, and though many of you are pooled as in the great oceans of this sphere, seemingly to appear so similar to others, every region contributes to the entire makeup. Be not concerned over what you may dream possible to accomplish. Be rather focussed on what you are immediately capable of accomplishing, knowing full well the repercussive effects upon all others, both in immediate vicinity and across the entire sphere. Being one who is keenly aware of the global conditions of civilization on this world, I encourage each of you to broaden your cosmic awareness.
# Peace on Earth
How the wisdom coding system works **WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Type of wisdom** (purple box) **E** = Evolutionary wisdom **R** = Revealed wisdom **H** = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix) --- **Target audience** (green box) **P** = Personal **G** = Group (non-personal) --- **Type of content** (yellow box) **C** = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.) **O** = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.) **M** = Mix of both curated and original content. --- **Reliability factor of content** (blue box) **1** = High **2** = Average **3** = Low **X** = Cannot be determined. --- **APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)** \[ \] soil \[ \] Land \[ \] Sea \[ \] AIR - Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable. - Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously. - All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark. - For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/light-and-life-categories-by-planetary-jurisdictions "Light and Life categories by planetary jurisdictions"). - For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/4-jurisdictions-flow-matrix "4 Jurisdictions Flow Matrix"). --- **SOURCE:** This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.
How does that happen? "Peace on Earth"
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**SOURCE:** tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 13, 2001. Teacher Paulo T/R Gerdean
Paulo: How does that happen? "Peace on Earth." How does it happen over an entire globe? It begins in your own heart when you cease to be in conflict with yourself, when you have aligned yourself appropriately. Appropriate to whom? Aye, there's the rub. Appropriate to the whole. But the whole has to be adequate in order for that kind of commitment to take place, and at this point, we haven't begun to garner the unity that yields the loyalty that transcends the separation that allows the whole to be. This is the stress, of course, on why it is that everyone become God-conscious, spirit-led. Even though intellectually it may be perceived different with each individual, in the essence of the spirit, harmony is the net result. Even today if you were to all set aside your intellectual differences, we would have peace on Earth. But since none of you are willing to set aside your opinions, it's necessary for us to have this growth, this conflict that can resolve values such as we are grappling with in order to have a greater appreciation for what it is we truly aspire for. This is a sociology matter. It's the brotherhood of man. It's Human Associations. It's about how people get along. It's about the fruits of the spirit ("And by your fruits you shall be known") even while your philosophies may vary greatly and your theologies be at complete odds. It is said that if you are to have faith, then have it to yourself. In this way you aren't arguing your ideas, you are living your beliefs - and those are values, meanings and ethics - not tenets. If you want to argue tenets, you're talking politics. There are no two of you alike, and thus no two of you share precisely the same thoughts. Each of your perceptions has your personal slant. It's not possible for all of you to have the same theology because it is so personal. It is intensely personal, inasmuch as it is the umbilical cord of your identity with reality, however those are perceived. This is why people die for their faith and what they believe in. It has reached the point of *that is who they are*; they live it so completely. If you understand your fellows, you will eventually find their motives and this will lead to an appreciation of their humanity such that your heart will be open to embrace the similarities you share, the values that are at the heart of you each, even as you differ in philosophy and approach. Education is extremely important, but education is as much of a weapon as is religion. You can browbeat a people with knowledge and only alienate their affections. Knowledge is living and needs to be shared, socialized. Socially speaking it's a long process, and spirit can accelerate the process considerably by allowing for sudden leaps of faith and insight into situations that result in understanding and thus resolve. All of us want to know resolve, and have peace of mind. It's difficult enough, ascending these planes of existence, without battling everyone along the way. That we all battle inside ourselves in the good fight of faith is adequate struggle, but as long as humanity prefers to reach for reality outside himself, and project his own conflicts onto others, are we inconvenienced by these revolutions of conflict as we are viewing in your world today. Thoroah: Peace on Earth must, relatively speaking, almost be like Heaven on Earth, to get to the point where a peaceful Earth will take a giant transformation. Paulo: Well, isn't it a matter of surpassing your animal nature and isn't that a fair parallel of the ascension plan, to make the spread between life implantation and the attainment of Light and Life, thus the goal of the inhabited worlds? So to the extent that you continue to experience war, that is the extent to which you have attained mastery, as a race of people. Some worlds, some races on some worlds, have established a policy of segregation from the more warlike in an attempt to differentiate themselves. Thoroah: How do you separate yourself from warlike people? They have a tendency to invade you. Paulo: It must be done early on. It's referenced in the [Urantia Book 71:4.1](https://glow.pikapod.net/books/the-urantia-book/page/71-development-of-the-state "71. Development of the State") where it talks about those who would choose to live a peaceful life, have a right to separate themselves from those who would take advantage of their natures, and this is where defense is appropriate as compared to offense, which continues the cycle, but it's rare that you find a people who are willing to "turn the other cheek." Thoroah: Historically, the United States has been on the *perceived* side of justice, freedom, human rights, etc. We seem to have taken the defense initiative to a certain level and then pulled back, sometimes maybe criticized for holding back, in that we have allowed the problem to remain by pulling back. How do you look at the United States as peace maker? Are they a peace maker or are they part of the problem? Paulo: I don't want to give an "either/or" answer. I don't want to say the United States is bad or good. For it has its strengths and its weaknesses. It is known throughout the world for its involvement in global affairs, but not always is its involvement favored. Sometimes it's regarded as an intrusion, an invasion. If you were to personalize the United States, give it a personality, and picture it being a grand manor at home but hob-nobbing throughout the neighborhood much of the time; there are those who say she should go home and mind her own business and quit meddling in the affairs of the neighborhood, while there are those who truly appreciate the services and the invigoration that comes from her visits. It's a matter of personality presentation. What would compel you to go to your neighbors house and offer your assistance or defend your property against their aggressions? Where does one draw the line on encroachment in terms of social justice? The answer is premature inasmuch as it is difficult if not impossible for you to rightfully judge your neighbor's behavior in and through your own view, but as a civilization, if you have a band of people who share your views and this band of people has power in the civilization, then as a civilization it may choose to act on behalf of its citizenry whereas individuals are unable to do so. So your conflict is unfinished growth. You haven't become a world society of people with a world government that can keep the peace by global law. You don't know each other well enough as nations to understand each other. Your cultures and religions are so different as to set each other up as if you were enemies, in a situation where fisticuffs is the only resolution. You would have far more power to act if you were acting as global citizens. But to the extent that religious differences, political differences, national differences, economic differences, language differences, etc, etc, continue to render you strangers to each other, your attempts at human brotherhood are aborted.

An entire lesson is available on Encroachment from the perspective of unlawful aggressions and law. [LESSON 6: Encroachment](https://glow.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/lesson-6-encroachment "LESSON 6: Encroachment")

Again, education is a viable answer. Ignorance and prejudice stand in the way of growth. As prejudice dissolves because ignorance is enlightened, peace can prevail because understanding is possible. So we're in the realm of the mind. And all of your minds are in a tailspin, working overtime, so I say "Give me some slack. Give yourself some slack." There's a lot to think about, a lot banking on this episode in Earth's history, and the spiritual climate is as electrically charged as it has ever been, while the danger of physical annihilation is running high temperatures also. No wonder we are here to teach you to be teachers. There is so much to be learned. So much reality to be impressed upon the people of Earth. So much reality needed to compensate for the centuries of unreality, which have held you in its grasp. What we can be glad of, however, is the quality of the Universal Father that allows its children to allow divinity to work in the lives of men and women even unconsciously, so that the reality of God is alive and well, even when the people themselves remain in ignorance. All this worry leads to tension and sometimes good arguments are ways of filing down the rough edges of a tense situation so that you can let go a little and laugh a bit, as a safety valve against destruction, but it takes a God-knowing constitution to keep a conversation in the bounds of good grace, not forgetting that you are fellows, not enemies. So when you see someone having a heated conversation, don't assume it's going to erupt. Be at peace. Have your own resolve. Maintain your own faith. Know who you are, and know what time it is in terms of your personal frame of reference for reality. If you can keep that focus, you can help bring about peace on earth faster by merely being anchored in the living water.
# Planetary administration
How the wisdom coding system works **WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Type of wisdom** (purple box) **E** = Evolutionary wisdom **R** = Revealed wisdom **H** = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix) --- **Target audience** (green box) **P** = Personal **G** = Group (non-personal) --- **Type of content** (yellow box) **C** = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.) **O** = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.) **M** = Mix of both curated and original content. --- **Reliability factor of content** (blue box) **1** = High **2** = Average **3** = Low **X** = Cannot be determined. --- **APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)** \[ \] soil \[ \] Land \[ \] Sea \[ \] AIR - Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable. - Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously. - All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark. - For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/light-and-life-categories-by-planetary-jurisdictions "Light and Life categories by planetary jurisdictions"). - For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/4-jurisdictions-flow-matrix "4 Jurisdictions Flow Matrix"). --- **SOURCE:** This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.
Many who are in positions of material power hold narrow perspectives
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**SOURCE:** tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 07, 2001. Teacher Elyon T/R Jonathan
Elyon: Mankind is greatly confused. Many who are in positions of material power hold narrow perspectives regarding what the planet is meant to be and to be done with. This viewpoint creates blind spots that contribute to events you are grappling with at this time. Earth is a disordered world. Though you pride yourselves with skills of organization, as yet this world has not seen a truly organized state of affairs. Much of what has taken place is the result of activities of organizations who are not considering the organizational efforts of others. This chasm between the efforts is the pit that mankind falls into periodically and engages in conflict and battle. From the cosmic perspective, whatsoever mankind does to himself, the ministers of Light will do everything within their power to uplift the world each time to a new level of planetary integration and cosmic understanding. We do not seek the painful experiences of the human races, but we will do what we can to uplift anyone or any corporate entity that seeks to comprehend the significance and the solutions to what transpires of a negative nature. Once your world gains a perspective of the whole, decisions by various organizations will be altered, will take on a tone of consideration, and this consideration will alleviate much of your world problems.
# Sovereignty The subject is covered here: [Sovereignty](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/personal-growth/page/sovereignty "Sovereignty") # Systems
How the wisdom coding system works **WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Type of wisdom** (purple box) **E** = Evolutionary wisdom **R** = Revealed wisdom **H** = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix) --- **Target audience** (green box) **P** = Personal **G** = Group (non-personal) --- **Type of content** (yellow box) **C** = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.) **O** = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.) **M** = Mix of both curated and original content. --- **Reliability factor of content** (blue box) **1** = High **2** = Average **3** = Low **X** = Cannot be determined. --- **APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)** \[ \] soil \[ \] Land \[ \] Sea \[ \] AIR - Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable. - Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously. - All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark. - For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/light-and-life-categories-by-planetary-jurisdictions "Light and Life categories by planetary jurisdictions"). - For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/4-jurisdictions-flow-matrix "4 Jurisdictions Flow Matrix"). --- **SOURCE:** This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.
Each of you is a part of a myriad of systems
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**SOURCE:** tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 21, 1997 Teacher Minearisa T/R Nancy
Each of you is a part of a myriad of systems, for the underlying structure of reality is made of systems. This system patterning is evident in the source of all personality, even in the Trinity, for God is three in one, three and yet unified as One. This is the reality of all existence, unified as one yet consisting of diverse, distinct, separate personalities and functions unified through various patterns of systems within systems within systems. You, your very existence, is dependent upon being in relationship. You would not exist were it not for your relationship to our Creator. Hypothetically if this relationship were to sever, your existence would cease as if it never had been, hypothetical only. As you are born, you are born into relationship with your parents. The first relationship is the relationship to mother. As that relationship is developed in the womb and experienced at birth, as you, the baby, grow and develop, your world becomes filled with additional relationships, the other significant persons who make up your initial family. These families are systems, interactive systems. Often patterns of functioning become learned in these initial systems and are reproduced at higher levels of system functioning, even to the social structures. As you can recognize through the evidence of viewing these larger social structures in your current generation, these systems of functioning are not healthy. In order to bring Light and Life to this planet, these large social systems must change. However, these systems reflect the original family unit structure. So it is at this level that we seek to instruct, that we may assist you in understanding the systems in which you now function, that we may assist you in recognizing what is effective, what brings forth joy, connectedness, love, true sharing of oneself with another, and what, on the other hand, leads to artificial repetition of patterns that have been handed down generation after generation. As you begin to understand your role in the systems in which you function, then correction, where it is needed, can be introduced by you. You are the agents of change in your personal lives, in your personal systems, in your family systems, in your larger groupings. You are the agents of change. It is through your willingness and your dedication and your commitment to a higher way, to learning what truth means, how truth reflects beauty and leads to goodness. Truth, beauty, and goodness are the goal. Learning to live lives that are truthful enhances the operation of every system of which you are a part. As you live lives that are truthful, you alter these systems. These systems become more real, less artificial. Healthy system functioning is the result. This work is up to you. Jill: We are agents of change from the level of families up to the level of institutions. For those of us in service agencies, please give us some indication of how to make these changes, how to move from a fear based consciousness to a love based consciousness. Minearisa: Thank you for your important question. How does one change these patterns of functioning?There in no simple answer to the question that you have asked. If there were a simple response, attaining Light and Life would be almost a momentary response. However, it is a response that takes time. Part of the functioning of the individuals on this planet is to focus on others, focus on other institutions, focus on outside systems as being the problem, that which needs to be fixed, that which is broken. Many individuals put much energy and attention toward trying to fix that which is not within their ability to change, for each of you can change only yourself. So, my answer is to work toward understanding yourself as you function within these many systems. Yes, love consciousness rather than fear-based consciousness would indeed solve the world's problems. Yet why is it that eventhough you are very committed to be servants to one another and to loving one another, you find that you cannot always do this? You desire to be in love consciousness, yet fear comes out of nowhere and bites you, so to speak. How is this? Where does it come from? This is the relationship between the ego and the personality. It is the human ego that has the desire for self preservation and is the source of fear. Now, the ego is not bad, is not wrong. The ego is necessary for your functioning as human beings. It is the ego that allows you to understand your separateness, to categorize, to organize the structure of reality so that you can function. You cannot function without the ego, yet the relationship between spirit, personality, and ego must be such that the personality is in charge of the ego and is subservient to spirit. It is the personality that has freewill choice. It is the personality who is the agent of change. So, my answer to you today is to do that sometimes very difficult work of coming to know yourself, to recognize when it is your ego functioning and when it is your personality functioning in adherence to spirit. Let me ask you this: Which voice is it that says, "That's your ego! You get that ego out of the way!"? Indeed, that is the voice of ego. So, you cannot force your ego into submission, but you can love your ego into the proper functioning with the personality. You can understand that the ego is there for particular reasons, that the ego has purpose. The ego needs to be recognized; the ego has fears. Love that ego. Calm the ego's fears. Allow the ego the protection it needs to be quieted. Do not allow one of the many heads of the ego to get into war with one of the other many heads of the ego. Love is indeed the answer. Self love is crucial, loving your ego, loving God, loving your creative expression, and through this giving loving service. This is what changes the systems in which you function. It is through self focus that you become unselfish. This sounds paradoxical, yet it is the only thing that will change these patterns of functioning.
# Transition
How the wisdom coding system works **WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Type of wisdom** (purple box) **E** = Evolutionary wisdom **R** = Revealed wisdom **H** = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix) --- **Target audience** (green box) **P** = Personal **G** = Group (non-personal) --- **Type of content** (yellow box) **C** = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.) **O** = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.) **M** = Mix of both curated and original content. --- **Reliability factor of content** (blue box) **1** = High **2** = Average **3** = Low **X** = Cannot be determined. --- **APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)** \[ \] soil \[ \] Land \[ \] Sea \[ \] AIR - Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable. - Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously. - All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark. - For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/light-and-life-categories-by-planetary-jurisdictions "Light and Life categories by planetary jurisdictions"). - For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this [chart](https://tbg.pikapod.net/books/the-rules/page/4-jurisdictions-flow-matrix "4 Jurisdictions Flow Matrix"). --- **SOURCE:** This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.
A transition can be smooth or it can be bumpy
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**SOURCE:** Lightline Teleconference 2024-11-07
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark
Amanson on Transition
Transition is the way of the world. Transition moves one era to the next; one movement to the next; one world to the next. Transition is the very thing we fear but, ironically, the very thing we aspire to. It is all about leaving one set of values for a higher; one set of prejudices to be toppled from its pedestal and replaced by a broader, more accepting view of life. Without transition our smaller thinking would remain in the driver's seat. No progress. No higher thinking. No transition.
Your world is presently in transition. It is trying to have it both ways: to remain comfortable within its familiar confines, and yet wrestle its way out of a system of bondage it can see is no longer sustainable, though it appeared to sustain for many years. Centuries actually. But there comes a time when a situation is glimpsed in its entireity; when all the participant's roles are examined and found to be, in one way or another, wanting, in that 'all the participants' are suddenly seen to be precisely not that — that what appeared to be *'all the participants'* was actually only *some* of the participants. And this 'some' had been holding all the power. When it becomes apparent "all the power" does not equal "all the participants", a transition is needed — required — to remedy an unequal situation. And so transition ensues.
A transition can be smooth or it can be bumpy, it depends on how willing we are to see the transition occur. And that depends on seeing (and agreeing with) the need for it. A transition, when its time has come, will happen. But will it happen with the help and blessing of all those in its midst? How delicate feelings become when a way of life is threatened! ...even when it is acknowledged by growing numbers of people that such a transition is necessary.
A way of life will serve for a time. It can advance progress in its pull, it can provide life's necessities in its push. But when that way of life becomes top-heavy, and those who have benefited most forget society's responsibility to maintain a reasonable balance of progress, stability, and individual freedom, then transition becomes absolutely necessary to maintain real progress; i.e. ethical progress, new horizons in interconnectedness and morality. Nature transitions, individuals transition. All things evolve: from physical creation to a human being's thinking. And so, worlds.
Humanity is unfolding and its deepest concerns are coming to the surface, manifesting in its behaviour as signals to steer by: on the one hand, the heavenly urges (kindness, magnanimity, openness, welcome, sincerity) need to be noticed, acknowledged, and steered towards; on the other, the egoistic selfish urges — (factionalism, desperate and frightened selfishness) steer away from. *However*, not from the selfish themselves. Steer away from their selfishness, but those who harbor such tired and fruitless passions are not to be despised, merely dealt with, as one deals with perhaps someone who has been given the wrong directions and yet insists they will arrive by this route. You who know the (metaphorical) map well are now in a position — have been placed in a position — to gently correct as effectively as possible the person's misguided notions. Sometimes, yes, there is no choice but to leave them to their own devices but this is not always the case. And personal transition — the microcosm of the macrocosm writ large — can be accomplished in this way, affecting one more individual element on the way to achieving the great Transition which all will eventually be — either willing or 'un' — a part of.