Elyon Group 12/7/97

[Rick P. Giles]

December 7, 1997
*       Elyon  (Mark TR):  Greetings.  I have come amongst you once
again today.  This is your friend and spirit guide Elyon.  I
would address some of your comments made here today in an effort
to correct some assumptions on your part as well as to bring you
increased perspective as to how we the teachers operate on your
behalf.  As you know we are in attendance whenever you assemble
for this purpose as observers to determine from your
communications with one another what the issues are that you have
been grappling with at any one time.  We learn much from these
encounters.  It is the issues at hand that are most primed to be
helpful to your spiritual growth.  If your discussion revolves
around a particular topic, this means you already have given some
thought, or are giving some thought, to the subject matter. 
Therefore, we deem it appropriate at this time to expand your
understanding of the given topic to increase your perspective.  
        Sometimes you may ascribe to us more credit than we are due
in that we are not all knowing, all encompassing beings.  We are
merely in the classroom a few grades ahead of you.  Still must we
make our observations based on your realities, your interests,
your desires.  We must tailor our lessons to your relative levels
of comprehension.  We are restricted in any way to force any
truths upon you which are out of your realms of comprehension. 
Therefore, as I have stated before, it is literally true that you
determine the lesson plans for the group by your actions and by
your desires.  We are subject to your plans should we be aware of
them.  
        When you assemble in larger groups this presents more of a
challenge to us, as there are far more diverse platforms on which
you all observe reality.  We must cater the lessons to somehow be
beneficial and effective to all who are present at a meeting. 
Therefore we look to you for our direction.  When we observe you
sharing amongst yourselves, we witness growth plainly and openly. 
It is as you would picture the snake shedding its skin.  When you
embrace another new level or ideal, when you increase your base
of experience, you outgrow your old skin, your old confinement. 
You shed this just like the snake.  You do this so regularly that
it is splendid for us to watch.  You should never fear that you
would run out of skins to shed, as this is not possible.  Each
time you embrace a higher ideal, each time you earnestly desire
to understand and discuss truths outside of your realm of
knowledge, you grow; you gain in capacity.  Each time you step
outside you outgrow your old limitations and embrace new ones.  I
would also add to this metaphor that each time your skin becomes
more brilliant and shines more light than the one before.  
        I praise you in your efforts to help each other in the un-
derstanding of these deeper truths, as you are equal, valid
instructors to each other.  You each have a perspective, a view-
point, that can help illuminate the dark corners for another.  If
all perspectives were laid out, there would be no more dark
corners to illuminate, as the total truth would be in full light. 
So, openly and freely share with those who desire similarly to
share your perspective, your views, your impressions, your inter-
pretations.  These greatly aid your brothers and sisters in
determining how their perspective fits in and how they may gain
some of your perspective, as well.  
        Now we must talk more about grace.  Grace is all of the
things that you have attributed to it.  It is an aspect of your
triangle.  It is a force to deliver a gift.  It is a gift from
the Father.  It is all these things combined.  It is your
cooperation, your engagement, with this grace which brings into
reality the gift of grace.  The gift of grace is there on the
table for each and every one of you to pick up at any time.  It
is correct that it is your growth that both allows you to see
this potential of grace and also to access it.  By the act of
involving yourself with this grace, growth is inherent.  By the
act of choosing to involve yourself with this grace, growth has
been present.  It is more than an ideal, and by describing it as
a potential I would not minimize its effect on your lives.  
        Grace comes to you as you are able to accept it.  As you
recognize it, it arrives on the scene.  As you use it, it
manifests in reality.  It requires your action to complete the
circle -or the triangle- and requires your recognition and
growth, as well.  But it is indeed never withheld, always
available to you as you already and can be viewed as the reaching
down of the Father to complement the reaching up of the mortal. 
It takes both to reach together to join hands and complete the
circuit.  The Father is ever willing to reach down in His gift of
grace to you.  As you are able and willing to reach up to the
Father, you actualize this grace, you realize this grace.  You
make this grace real in your life and in those lives around you
when you take active part with the Father.  
        Grace does not shower gifts down upon you which you have not
earned.  It is not divine providence upon which you can lean.  It
is active between you and the Father.  It must be fluid between
you and the Father.  When an opportunity arises, presents itself,
that is grace.  When you present yourself within this oppor-
tunity, that is your growth.  Together you make this grace real;
you manifest this grace.  
        Would anyone else care to share any perspective?
        Jonathan:  Grace seems to come in the middle of an
experience.  It is neither a reward nor are we deprived of an
experience.  It is a commingling of our experience and God's,
that active participation, the point of impact where grace is
realized.  
*       Elyon:  Grace may be seen in that scenario as the experience
and what you chose to do with the experience.  The experience
exposed itself to you; this is the gift from the Father.  Then
you present yourself to the experience; this is your gift to the
Father.  Together you both make the most out of the potentials
inherent in the experience. 
        Mary:  When you first gave us this assignment you said that
you were giving it so that we might be better able to acknowledge
the way that God is at work in our lives.  The more we discuss it
the more I come to believe that grace is an overall presence. 
Our awareness is the activation.  When we talk about
synchronicity in our lives, angel bumps, feeling guided, all of
these could be described as grace.  Grace is another word to
describe God in our lives.  The more we acknowledge God, the more
we become real, tuned in, and graceful.  
*       Elyon:  Very well said.  The grace is, indeed, in the form
of many different experiences in your lives, and you remain the
facilitators to actualize the grace potential.  If you were to
only be aware of the opportunities of grace and not act on these,
you would not be completing the full cycle; you would not be
reaching and grasping the hand of the Father as He extends it
towards you.  You would simply acknowledging that the hand of the
Father was there.  Your step to follow up the gift of grace is to
take the hand of the Father and fully materialize and realize the
potentials inherent in the gift He has given you.  
        I perceive that you are all coming to some realization of
grace, and this is very pleasing.  It is always pleasing to work
with you, each one, as you are so responsive.  I speak of
reaching back to those who reach out.  Indeed, each one of you in
this classroom today has a gold star on the chart for effort for
reaching back to us as teachers, to God as He presents you with
His gifts.  This is truly a noble characteristic you each have
here today, and I am humbled to witness it and to work with you. 

        I have no more comments today.  I will remain in attendance
as always, and I will make room for more teachers or for your
individual comments.  
*       Evanson  (Jonathan):  You have been instructed and
understand the idea that to recognize God in the lives of others
and for God to be recognized by others in your life you must bear
or witness the fruits of the spirit.  In a manner of speaking
grace is the garment of God that reveals Himself directly.  It is
the fruit of God.  Sometimes He comes to you in overcoat, hat,
and boots that you may better bear the adversities in your life. 
Sometimes He comes in festive adornment that you may worship,
commune, and celebrate with one another.  He will bring His cane;
He will bring His hankie.  These are the ways that the Father
touches you.  At your level of perception and abilities to
perceive, as well as mine, we are only able to perceive God
through His revelations.  The fruit of the spirit you bear in
your lives is one more ramification of the action of God in the
world.  
        Grace can have a secondary application.  That is, it can be
received by you from another of your kind and likewise received
from another by you.  I would turn your triangle into a square by
adding the previously mentioned word "guide".  As a servant to
the Father you can be a guide for conveying the gift of grace for
another's growth.  You can be diligent in recognizing guidance of
a brotherly nature from others and thereby receive God's grace. 
The Father reveals through His grace, and you reveal the Father
through your fruits.  
         I am happy to be here today.  I am Evanson.  I thank you.  
        Daniel:  I pick up that fruits of the spirit are a
revelation of God.  So, as far as we are revealing God, we are
producing fruits.  Are they synonymous or are fruits applicable
to something else also? 
*       Evanson:  The teaching of the fruits of the spirit has been
derived from the master's teaching that you know a tree by the
fruit it bears.  But to the untrained eye a tree is a tree.  When
it bears its fruit the kind of tree is recognizable; the inner
qualities are revealed, spiritually speaking.  The fruit, in a
spiritual sense, is the outworking of grace in your life
intermingled with your reactions and your decisions.  They,
combined, become a revelation for another.  
        It may not be a revelation to you to recognize the fruit you
bear.  It can be an enhanced awareness and appreciation of your
current growth level. Bearing the fruit of the spirit is
something that, in the manner of a tree, you must do through
simply providing the fruit on your own limbs.  A tree does not
give its fruit to you; you must take the fruit from it.  Ther-
efore, the bearing of the fruit of the spirit in your lives is a
revelation only when another takes this display of spirit reality
into themselves.  
        Daniel:  So, it is a contribution to the Supreme?
*       Evanson:  Good.  Yes. 
        Daniel:  In order to contribute to the Supreme does there
have to be a recipient other than yourself?
*       Evanson:  No.  Simply to bear the fruits is the
contribution, but the recognition of these fruits by another is
how you reveal.  Much like grace and growth, bearing of fruit has
the complementary element of receptivity by another.  You may
bear the fruit of spirit in complete isolation, but you reveal
spirit in your life by socialization.  
        Daniel:  So you discover God as fruit in your personal, and
you share or reveal God when someone can benefit from it?
*       Evanson:  Yes, the receptivity must be present much as you
have discussed grace being a potential that is realizable at the
moment of receptivity.
        Jill:  Would it be correct to say that the bearing of fruit
is a daily conscious action as we choose to be the Father's will,
regardless of whether there is a recipient at each moment?  It's
continuous as we seek to be the Father's will?
*       Evanson:  Yes.  May I put it this way:  Imagine you are an
orange tree, and you bear fruit season after season, much of
which falls to the ground and moistens the soil.  When another
plucks the fruit and peels it then revelation is taking place. 
Does this help to clarify?
        Jill:  Yes, thank you.  
        Mark: It's like if a tree bears fruit in the woods and
nobody sees it, does it still bear fruit?  The answer is yes
whether or not it has been revealed to others.  
        Daniel:  Is it still an experiential attainment of the
Supreme?
*       Evanson:  It is within the orchard of the Supreme. 
        Daniel:  But not necessarily for sharing with the overall
consciousness of other beings?
*        Evanson:  Bearing fruit spiritually is in itself an end,
for it is a revelation of the inner state of one's being.  It is
not a way of masking one's interior through artificial ap-
pearances.  Grace is the garment of God which reveals who He is. 
He does not dress in costume.  Your bearing of fruit is a result
of your life, not a bag of tricks in order to entice another into
spirit living.  Such being the case, your contribution to the
Supreme is the result of the added benefit, is when another
receives nourishment from your bearing.  They must then
internally bear their own fruit.  They do not adopt yours; you
stimulate their own production.  Each individually within
themselves produces another revelation of the Supreme.
        Daniel:  We are what we eat.
        Mark:  And what we do.  Thank you, Evanson, that was a
beautiful lesson.  
        Tom:  (asking Jessona, tape flipped) ...the qualities of
grace that one might cultivate in order to be a more effective
healer?  Also is the healing mission connected to the mission of
nature and grace? 
*       Jessona:  I, Jessona, am present and greet you.  Healing
ministry through spiritual means, contact of personality to
personality, soul to soul, is compensatory of the incomplete
evolutionary development of physical life.  Through the Life
Carriers, nature provides you with a physical mechanism in which
to live, your body.  You know each world is conditioned by events
which have contributed to or detracted from the biologic
development of this life vehicle.  In a larger perspective, even
the developments of life on differing worlds condition what type
of vehicle you inhabit on this planet.  In order for the Father
and Michael and Nebadonia to allow for the growth of even the
Life Carriers, we find ourselves in a position where we must live
in an environment with inadequacies.  Herein enters the grace of
healing ministry.  In understanding the scope, the conditions
which bear upon a specific event of illness, you are better able
to be a conduit for healing; you are better able to understand
who receives the credit for healing, and you are better able to
cope with the apparent failure of healing, for even tragedy
itself may be working great miracles in the advancement of a
larger arena of beings.  This is where the element of faith must
be applied, for the compassion of one's heart that longs to be of
service in this form of ministry is good and ought to be bestowed
for another's benefit.  But therein ends your task, for you must
in detachment defer your desires to the overcare of the Father.  
        When you have heard the phrase that all things work to the
good, I would underline the word "all", for there are times when
singular specifics do not appear to work for the good. 
Eventually healing will disappear when the universe is settled in
Light and Life, for all things will function appropriately.  In
the mean time, as you are motivated through compassion, you can
be the Father's means for providing the grace of healing another,
if it be His will.  
        Does this supply you with enough answer?
        Tom:  Yes, thank you.  It's nice to hear from you again.
*       Jessona:  Thank you.  Beings of my order are always
challenged with the conflict, if I may put it that way, of having
a goal for this world and being ever confronted with the current
conditions.  Even when we tend to conditions which appear to be
wholly mundane we are increasingly impressed at how even these
apparent transient conditions and events on your world play into
the ultimate goal.  As this is our task for the world, I
encourage you to learn to recognize this in your lives when the
daily events seem to be inconsequential to your Paradise ascent. 
We are forever realizing new ramifications, and you may do
likewise.  
        Jonathan:  I'm getting that another teacher would like to
close and would like to use a different TR for voice.  
*       unidentified  (Mary):  In the overall presence of God in our
lives we can discern patterns of love, grace, that manifest as
opportunities, growth, beauty, goodness.  It is our awareness of
these presences that grows.  Our ability to recognize these
influences increases with experience.  The ability to draw on
these experiences and direct them toward an understanding of God
will develop more fully with the passing of time.  Within your
hearts and your minds and your actions you must develop a
coordination.  You must strive for unity within these aspects of
your being.  The influences and graces of God bear down upon you
to assist you in the unification of these contrasting aspects of
your lives, the activities of your minds, the desires of your
hearts, and the actions that you take.  
        Try to remember to call on God and the many influences He
has provided to assist you.  You are not alone in your struggle. 
You are watched.  There are those waiting for your reach.  There
are beings who are bearing fruit which they desire you to pick. 
Avail yourselves consciously and with effort to the reception of
these many gifts and graces.
        Thank you.