Elyon Group 5/24/97

[Rick P. Giles]

May 24, 1998
*	Rantarason (Sheila TR):  Greetings.  I am your friend Rantarason, and it
brings me great pleasure to be amongst a loyal group, such as yourselves.
	It is a great pleasure to hear your conversations of your highlights for
the week.  As you document what we share with you, we are, in a sense,
documenting what you share amongst yourselves, for as much as you learn from our
gift, we are learning from your gift.   Our lessons can be applied to what you
can learn; your lessons are an example of what you already have learned.  This
gift is well worth documentation.  Your reflection shows conscious effort to
apply that which you often think you have not.  I would share with you now and
impress upon you to take upon yourselves gratification for what you have
learned,
what you are applying, for this is where you have come to thus far.  It is
because of your conscious application, your action of applying and then sharing
with one another your experiences, that helps us to construct the next lesson or
series of lessons.  It shows your abilities to listen, to think about, to
apply. 
In sharing these you can be assured that all systems are still go; the growth is
continuing; your oneness is being shared.  Your love and your light continue to
grow.
	Continue to be aware of the importance in your sharing and communication,
through your struggles, through your laughter; it is in sharing that your light
grows.  It is in sharing that love continues to spread.
	Be aware of the emotions you are feeling; these can be shared verbally to
have a better understanding of what they mean, how they are connected with the
growth of yourself and others.
	Your inspiration will always be of benefit to all of Urantia throughout all
of the universe. 
	 I am sensing a feeling of loyalty and oneness amongst this group today. 
This feeling is being conveyed throughout the universe and is being ricocheted
back to your planet for the healing of all who are willing to accept.  I would
encourage this feeling to be carried with you while in your day, your week; the
accumulation of this light need not be dampened by your separateness in going to
your own homes.  The connection can be conveyed, for, even while in your own
dwellings, you continue to be connected with the consciousness of doing so.
	I thank you for your time.  I thank you for allowing us to be a part of
your loyal and light-giving group.
*	Elyon (Jonathan): I, too, greet you today.  This is Elyon.  I have always
enjoyed our fellowship, and I will once again remind you that our master is here
in fellowship, as always.  
	I have for you a thought regarding love.  You know that it is said that you
cannot love another any more than you love yourself, for one is the measure of
the other.  I have for you a consideration that is in regard to the attributes
that love reveals in your life, and how you apply them often differentially
toward another in contrast to its application toward yourself.  For
instance, you
know that love is patient, and some of you will be greatly patient with another
and not so with oneself.  Oftentimes the reverse is true.  In order that you may
better love another, it is good to practice the application of the
manifestations
of love upon yourself with the same equality you apply to another, for in doing
so with those with whom you have already established great feelings of love and
camaraderie, you will be better able to apply these same feelings towards those
who do not create such immediate offering from you to them.
	Many are cautious of focus upon oneself due to the worthwhile awareness
that self-absorption can be a distraction from ministry to your fellows.  I
would
ask you to try to view this focus upon your own being as preparatory to ministry
to another.  You know that the Father is no respecter of persons.  Why then
ought
you to value yourself more than your friends?  Michael is among us today, and he
is observing all of you equally with no greater love extended toward one
over the
other.  If he can so love you, you can so love you.  You will realize that your
love is a love that is unconditional.  It is only in the mind that it is
reasoned
that there are differentials in this value of love.  If, by chance, you are
reluctant to pursue this ability to love to yourself, you may place yourself in
the lap of the Father within you and love your human being with His love.
	A selfish love is one that seeks to gain.  Selfless love is one that seeks
to give.  Give love to yourself.  Make your motive the giving rather than
receiving love of oneself.  By this I imply an absence of vanity.  It is subtle,
but it is a form of orientation; it is how you are situating yourself in this
internal dynamic.  A love of oneself that seeks to give is a love that can seek
to give to others.  A love of oneself that seeks to gain is a love that finds
difficulty in serving one another.
	I hope you will reflect upon this in your days ahead so that you may
further deepen your realization of belonging in a family of equal children.
	These are my words today.
*	Sharmon:  My fellow ducklings, this is Sharmon.  I enjoyed (Tom's) story,
for it so well illustrates the course of this planet. [referring to Tom's vivid
account of rescuing a flock of ducklings from a storm and then adopting them
when
their mother was killed.]  When the floodtides of rebellion swept in upon this
world, many of us were taken by surprise and found our feathers rather wet.  In
our own turmoil, we struggled with not losing sight of the Father's great,
compassionate net.  At times He seemed so far, and yet all along was He on the
shore reaching to retrieve us back into His fold.  Unfortunately my own kind
lost
a few.  But those of us who were able to grasp the Father's hand have become
ever
more faithful in holding to the truths that He teaches us.
	Never will there be a situation this serious on this world again.  However,
as difficult as this episode has been for this planet, we have an even greater
challenge before us.  That is to make this world become what it was intended to
be and to do so without many of the normal steps in the procedure that is
foreordained that all planets traverse to reach Light and Life.  We must now be
creative.  We and you are co-opted into the Melchizedek program.  Not only will
we be directed, but we are also obliged to be directing.  This gives our
personal
lives a double agenda:  One, your own personal growth in preparation for
morontia
experience.  The other, contribution to the progress of this world in
preparation
for its utopian attainment.  You will leave this world before we reach it.  I
will be staying till we do.  Then I will follow with you.  
	For many human beings personal growth in spiritual matters is tantamount to
all other experiences.  To us midwayers, planetary progress is of prime
importance; then we begin our ascension.  I ask your helping hand for our sake,
and we pledge to ever be of assistance to you in your primary and secondary
purposes.
	Thank you for hearing me today.
	Mark:  Thank you.  We can benefit from your experience of patience,
forbearance, having been through so much.  It's inspiring to perceive your
relying on the success of the overall before your personal success.
*	Sharmon:  I receive your appreciation.  
	Daniel:  I'm getting the phrase:  what united Urantians attempt, united
Urantians do.  The midwayers and us working together can accomplish this.
*	Sharmon:  It is indeed unfortunate that we are unable to make ourselves
known to you more often, as we are so akin to you in many ways: in behavior, in
our nature, and in our orientation.  At times in the confusion that swept
through
the two orders of my classification, we have derived great inspiration from our
younger brethren, you human beings.  It is remarkable, your abilities to
overcome
great doubt, to stand firm when all else around you stands in contrast to what
you hold dear.  True, we have been greatly comforted by our angelic ministers,
but there is nothing more remarkable than  witnessing your behavior, you who are
much closer to us.  I do desire to see us in one united effort proclaim the
phrase you have spoken.
	Mark:  It is our desire to work more closely with your order and others
toward this eventuality.  I offer our further commitment.  I think we can work
more hand-in-hand as time goes on.
*	Sharmon:  I am fully confident that this is unfolding even now as we speak. 
I am assured by our melchizedek guides that much effort will be invested in
contributing to our cooperative adventure on this world.  
	Sheila:  Everyday we cross a finish line as we, not having the visual or
the touch, overcome the feeling of separateness from the guides.  If we can
accomplish this now, just think when we are on the same dimension!  We can only
imagine working closer together, when the veil of doubt is lifted.
	When we don't give ourselves the feeling of, "I did it!", in the moment of
silence -- which we often forget to have -- I'm sure they pour upon us feelings
of accomplishment if we allow ourselves to accept them.  We can ask to have this
feeling of accomplishment revealed to us, and it will be.  Speaking with the
guides is a sure pat on the back, a reminder.  I'm very grateful.
*	Sharmon:  I would offer another response in light of your comments.  You
can imagine what it was like for us midwayers to have encountered the rebellion
as we have and to realize that our own order had been active in promoting the
difficulties.  We, who realized what was transpiring and began to affect its
reversal, were very concerned about losing the assistance of the celestial
guides
who have come to this world.  When we were assured and witnessed their continual
ministry to us, we experienced great relief.
	You all are not active contributors in the rebellion.  You, as you know,
are well aware of your faults.  But these are from lack of training and
application, not from outright rebellion.  So, I do encourage you to trust the
celestial guidance.  It is at your request.  We have never lost it; you likewise
never will.  
	Sheila:  I'm getting visuals with these transmissions.  Could you comment
on what I have conveyed up to this point?  I am grateful for them; they are
great
tools.
*	Miriam:  Greetings.  It may not be much of a surprise that I greet you;
this is Miriam.  I have some comments.
	You know how well Michael taught in parables; you know how well the
teachers can express a lesson through word pictures.  The incorporation of more
senses than the sense of sound enlarges the comprehensibility of the truth
expressed.  The visual imagery is spatial; it embraces all elements at once. 
Verbal expression is sequential and must await the entire expression for the
enlarging to become apparent.
	I encourage you to continue expanding your skill in receiving in this
manner.  Morontia sensibilities incorporate this approach.  I would also, in
closing, caution that, much as Michael requested that his apostles not become
carried away with literal interpretation of every element, that you also do
likewise and grasp the entirety, the essence expressed in the overall.  Simply
allow the details to be enriching of the truth expressed.  
	I give you my full love. 
	Sheila:  Thank you.  It has been received.