"Not need them?" Josh said.
"There are many kind people doing what they came to do."
"Kind?" Elani said, dubiously. "That‘s the proper way to live?"
"There is more to kindness than your world understands. At many
points, all of you have not known better, and with the best of intentions
contributed to the demise of a healthy learning circumstance."
Rachel developed a keen interest in the weave of Bonnie‘s carpet, as
Kha-lib continued, "There are many others among you who have come
back to aid in mass changes."
"Come back from the time of Christ?" Meaghan said, taking the focus
off her friend.
"Don‘t they need these lessons too? I mean, they won‘t remember
them, will they?" Rachel said. Looking at Bonnie strangely, she added,
"What were their lessons, anyway?"
"In your terms, our emissaries will need reminders of the core lessons
they developed both before, and at the time of your Christ figure.
However, memory as you think of it is not in play when they deal directly
with their Source." He faced Meaghan and said, "Give us a moment."
Bonnie sat passively for about ten seconds, before the airy but formal
voice of Saa-ra took over…
"The returning masters and their students comprise one mass
consciousness, mystically focused, forming one family from one level of
evolution and experience. They have evolved cultures in a cycle of events
and conditions, ever changing and ever challenging, for millions of years.
They did not appear based on the theoretical evaluations of a superior
intelligence, or by the whim of eternal chance. Evolution, as you know it,
was learned even by All That Is.
"In your time," she looked around the room as this boggling idea
settled in, "this cycle of events is described as reincarnation, which is not
quite accurate. However, this concept allowed our students to see their
lives in a larger way, and aided them in understanding their grander
relationship in and to an ever-evolving universe."
She paused her gaze on Meaghan.
"This family of masters has been known in many times, by many
names. At the time of your Christ figure," she looked away from
Meaghan," which in your time-oriented terms would be their fourth mass
intercession into mankind‘s ways, they were the Essenes."
Bonnie closed her eyes.
"Their Prophets," Saa-ra said at a slower pace, "spoke of the arrival
of K ha-li‘s portion, or son, and members of his family. All of them were
channels to the realm of creation, and as masters of the balances of life,
