Elyon Group 10/19/97

[Rick P. Giles]

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October 19, 1997
*       Elyon  (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, friends.  Once again I
would express to you our appreciation of the time that you take
to be with us consciously in fellowship and company with your
brothers and sisters, those who are not tangible to you.  Your
material existence has many elements which demand your focus,
that arrest your attention. It truly is a diligent effort you
make to interface with realities that are seemingly so in-
graspable.  Many of us are experienced with human living, for we
have undergone a mortal life.  We thereby know your abilities to
make effort at attaining communication with your higher friends. 
My days of mortal life are distant.  I have memories of those
times, but the line of experience, the trail behind my growth is
lengthy, and those episodes seem to be but a speck in the
spectrum.  
        I encourage you to look ahead to your yet-to-be-experienced
trail.  Know with assurance that your experiences of the day fit
into a lengthy ascension, and that, while you may wonder with
despair at the meaning of the moment, there is an integrated
feature of your eternal future.  Do realize that while you age in
material form and time appears to go by far more quickly, that
your days, years, and eons will be experienced the same.  This
life you live now is but a day.  As you mature spiritually, the
day will be seen in the context of the year, and you will un-
derstand its meaning more fully.
        This is the importance of faith in your life, of the
development of your ability to trust.  These two aspect of your
being, faith and trust, are dual in quality.  One, you have to
actively cultivate these traits.  The other is the degree to
which you allow the traits to function.  This is the significance
of "be you like a little child."  Young ones don't fret over the
day in relation to the year but accept it and grow.  Where you
must cultivate these traits may be likened to the temper tantrum
of a young one who has yet to learn how to understand a situation
in a larger context.  
        I am Elyon, and I have friends who would like to speak
today. 
*       Mantutia  (Shiela):  I would like to thank you, my friends,
for yet another episode of defining that which you call the
Teaching Mission, for each time that we hear your definition, we
are reminded of what has been accomplished through our
communications with one another.  We too struggle at times to
define what it is exactly that is happening, for many times we
call it the Student Mission, for we are constantly learning from
you.  The student and the teacher are one in many cases.  Those
that you at times fear as your enemy have truly become your
greatest teacher.  As a student, when this acknowledgement has
become real to you, when the lesson has been learned, you
yourself can be considered self taught, for it is you who has
chosen to apply the lesson.  
        Many times you have noticed a pattern of episodes in your
lifetime that causes what you first conceive as fear, anger,
disappointment.  As time goes by and there is reflection of all
that was entailed, you begin to lose the fear and see what it is
that was taught, what it is that you learned which was applied to
your growth.  In reality we are the student until the lesson has
been applied.  Then we become the teacher, for it can be shared. 
We are grateful to be called the teachers, but we are most
grateful when we call ourselves the students.  
        It is of the Father's will that we share our lives and our
lessons.  Though we appear to be distant we are very much alike,
very much connected and shall continue to be from now on.  It is
a great opportunity to have a sharing time with those who have
been around for a time and those who are new.  It is like fresh
air.  
        I thank you for this opportunity to speak.  I am Mantutia,
and I bid you a good day.  
*       Malvantra  (Daniel):  Greetings, this is Malvantra.  I would
like to take this time to welcome those who are new to this
circle.  (We had two new people.)  Your individual hues of light
blend well with the light of the others.  
        I would share today that you each are on a portion of your
path at this time which seems to you to be emphasizing a struggle
of sorts.  You are all in a very important area of your own
personal growth which is focused at this time on the discovery
and acceptance of your individual identity.  This is not an easy
time for mortals, yet it is a grand opportunity for each of you
to participate in the redefinition of who you truly are.  The
love and acceptance that you all receive from one another is
greatly facilitating your progress through this personal trans-
formation.  We see and recognize your individual struggles with
this process, yet we cannot directly help you per se because this
part of your journey is one which you individually can only make
alone with your Fragment of God which resides within you.  You
are discovering things about yourself at this time which you did
not know were there or which you perhaps had forgotten in the
interim of many lessons which you have been acquiring.  You have
nothing to lose and ultimately everything to gain.  As the Master
has said so many times, fear not your process, it is your due. 
It is in preparation for that which is coming.  Embrace who you
are and learn to love yourself for your determination, for your
sincerity, for your desire to grow, and do not dwell on areas
which you have not yet mastered.  These all will fall into place
in due time as you acquire the necessary lessons for them to do
so.  
        At this time it is critical for you each to regularly seek
stillness with your Indwelling Partner.  It is energizing and
replenishing.  You all have been feeling a certain measure of ex-
haustion.  The most sure way of spiritual rest and rejuvenation
is in your times of quiet, internal communication.                                            I thank
you for time I was allowed to share with you today.  I will step
back now. 
*       Aaron  (Jonathan):  I am Aaron.  I bring you a thought to
ponder.  
        If all of you here today were to stand in an open field
yards apart from one another, each one would be somewhat vulnera-
ble in the sense that you could be knocked over.  You would be
somewhat  weak in that for you to communicate or transfer an
object to another across the field would take great effort. 
Spiritually this is the significance of fellowship.  Imagine now
you all shoulder to shoulder in one bundle.  Now you are strong. 
Individually you cannot be toppled.  You can pass your informa-
tion to one another through the hands of fellowship.  Through
this bonding you acquire the skills of another indirectly, for
your fellow with these skills acquired can assist you in ac-
complishing your goals.  And the reverse is true.  When you feel
isolated take time to feel the presence of the shoulders of your
friends.  Take time to acknowledge that fellowship and derive
strength therefrom.  
        Thank you for providing me the opportunity today to speak. 
Farewell.
        [Jonathan later said Aaron gave him the mental picture of a
mosh pit!]