[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 8/11/02

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Strength, Climbing the Rock of Truth, Working as Individuals and Groups
Teachers: Elyon, Machiventa

August 11, 2002

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Dear friends, this is Elyon.  I greet you with love. 
I am here to encourage, to provide support.
	I wish to say a few words on the subject of strength.  It is a necessary
component in life.  Without strength no work, no force, can be exercised.  Life
continually challenges all organisms by the contrast of ease and difficulty. 
Were it not for resistance no organism would struggle, no gains would be made in
the building of character and the accumulation of wisdom or even in the health
and strength of body.  Heaven is a concept in the human mind of a realm of
bliss,
peace, and joy.  It is true you will experience these elements of the heavenly
state, but you will soon discover that struggle continues, not as an apparent
force to thwart your ambitions, but as a counter support to the attainment of
your goals, to the development and maturation of your personality.
	When you mix flour with water you have a mess.  As you knead the two
together at first it appears to be quite a jumble, a distortion, a wrenching and
tearing.  At first the beauty is not seen, yet the struggle yields the necessary
combinations and extractions needed to bring about that wonderful loaf of
bread. 
Life, not only biologically but morontially, is full of kneading that yields the
spiritual gluten which strengthens you, maintains your composure, your
composition, when the fire of testing arrives and when the realities of
hardships
confront you.
	You have been in the exercise gym of Michael's teachings for many years. 
You have developed strength.  There is no finish, no final stage wherein you may
say, "I am strong", for it is a continual process.  Strength is lost if not
worked.  However, through your studies, through your application of truth as you
live, you have developed a spiritual muscle mass, and it is through this mass
that you are able to climb, to lift, to ascend.
	It is our purpose to encourage you to be bold, enduring, and strong.  It is
likewise our purpose to encourage you to enjoy rest, to worship, to reinvigorate
yourselves with that frictionless sense of the Father's presence.  No
athlete can
endure continual exertion.  Periods of repose are required to renew, to build
energy sources, stores.  This cycle brings about endurance and strength,
exertion
and rest.  So it is with your spiritual pursuits.  Life will provide numerous
opportunities for exertion; you as a spiritual athlete must also provide
opportunities for stillness, for worship, for refreshment.  That will develop
your character, the strength that the master exhibited when he stood before
Pilate, when he was confronted by the thoughtless soldiers, when he hung from a
cross.
	I extend my compassion, my care and love to each of you and to your loved
ones.

	Mark:  Thank you.  And thank you for your communication about my parents
and my role in any spiritual growth that may happen.  I have backed off my
expectations.  I'm open to suggestions as to how to be of service.  My heart
seeks for a more active role than a mere familial part.  I welcome any insights
you may offer.

*	Elyon:  I admire your aspirations and your extension of love to your loved
ones.  Your value placed upon the relationship with God is one that you know is
worthy for all to experience.  This world needs more like yourself... for
...  to
reach to another soul to bring light to touch bases, to sense areas of need that
may be ministered to.
	Your current instructions may be likened to the resting time of bread as it
rises wherein you may let it sit.  Let the yeast, the leaven of truth, work on
its own.  This can establish a deeper bond, as you say, through a familial
trusting, a casualness, that can dispel any guardedness.  Before long the dough
will have risen, and a new moment arrives for you to infuse the relationship
with
truths you have come to know and can share.

	Mark:  Thank you for your role in this experience as well as the role you
and the others play in our lives.  They are so much richer for having your
perspectives and advice.

*	Elyon:  Your gratitude is acknowledged and received.

*	Machiventa:  Greetings, this is Machiventa.  I am going to draw into this
meeting Harold's description of the rock climbers, for I am attracted to that
form of bravery.  It is profound on your part to have made the connections
between this physical sport and spiritual effort.
	The rock that is truth is a spectacular object to climb, and you who have
undertaken this ascent to the summit of Michael have learned how to use tools
bestowed upon you -- even invented by you -- to gain a firm grip to lock
yourself
to this rock.  Not all are confident enough to ascend alone or to ascend beyond
the heights that others have taken.  It takes courage; it takes trust, and that
is what I am attracted to, for you to be energized even when the situation is
perilous.  It is good for your growth.  It is good for the advancement of the
Supreme.  You reflect Michael who boldly went forth into space and began the
creation of Nebadon.
	I will close my comments by saying that this rock climbing of a spiritual
nature does not need to be descended from.  You will reach the Paradise summit
and enjoy the spectacular, breathtaking exhilaration of being in the Father's
presence.
	I take my leave.

	Harold:  I remember some of the problems expressed with the disciples
concerned ultra individualistic characteristics.  I'm assuming they found it
difficult to work with others.  If that's correct, what part does individuality
continue to have as we progress?

*	Elyon:  Yes, indeed.  The difficulty of self importance or more
specifically that an individual's idea is better when applied as solution than
another's brought much conflict.  Teamwork is a valuable lesson that will be
continually learned and relearned  and reapplied for many ages for all of you. 
Individuality and cooperation are complements in the process of Supreme
unfoldment.  Light and Life is a settled age of cooperation, but it is also the
final stage of individual attainment.  Always will the two contribute and
conflict.
	Michael has always encouraged every individual to have a personal and
direct experience with the Father.  But he also strongly emphasized the
importance of brotherhood, of socializing the religious experience.  Each
apostle
believed his assertion of the best way was right, and as they conflicted
each one
was granted an opportunity to refine his method, to adopt methods of others, and
to coordinate each single idea into an effective group plan.  This is the nature
of the Supreme, individual discovery synergized with totality attainment.
	Has this been helpful?

	Harold:  Yes, I think so.  Is our task to be individuals but also be
capable of working with a group?

*	Elyon:  Yes, for it is a requirement to discover the potentials of self,
and each must do so.   However, if each one did so at the expense of others, it
would be chaos.  As each one turns over their own rock to find their own
treasure
and brings that treasure into the collective, then the great castle is built out
of the many jewels.
	Michael was expert in his wisdom when, as Jesus, he would allow the
apostles to wrestle it out for themselves.  For his own contribution, though he
be the Creator Son, was yet only one of the group.  In his position his apostles
would have backed down and allowed his individual assertion to be the one
accepted.  So each human being can learn to let another's assertion come forward
for entertainment and to be reminded of your own worth as you present your
ideas,
that each one must be expressed for the synergizing of a group direction.
	For the record, this is Elyon.

	Harold:  Something I've been meaning to ask, what are some of the questions
that you wish we would ask that we aren't thinking of?

*	Elyon:  I am always open to any inquiry, and I express this in the effort
to prevent any questioner feeling that their question perchance may be
beside the
point or unimportant or distracting.  I welcome all questions.  However, I am
most engaged when you inquire probingly into your betterment as a spiritual
being, when you seek to wrest new insights that can be applied to your daily
life, for, though the theoretical confers upon the mind a great vision of the
grand scheme of things, your true successes and failures are met in each passing
moment in apparently mundane events.  These episodes bring growth.  These
are the
questions that I am drawn to carefully address and to support.  As an example,
the question, "Does God exist?", though of tantamount importance to the mind, is
not as directly applicable as the question, "What must I do to be saved?", for
this entails a personal search.  Both questions will be asked, answered, during
the process.
	If there be no other questions I withdraw my contact with you today.  You
are my fellows, and you are my good students.  Farewell.