Elyon Group 7/19/98

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Teacher: Elyon
Topic: Being and Doing

July 19, 1998
*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  I greet you today.  I am happy to be
present once again here with you in our group format, and I'm pleased
to be able to present some of my thoughts on your discussion prior to
your request for us to speak with you.
	I am Elyon.
	You know that the Father Fragment within you is not in any
particular organ in your body; you know that it is closely associated
with your mind.  You also know that it also works with the associated
mind ministry of the adjutants and in cooperation with the seraphic
guardians.  All this activity around your being.  You are aware that
this Thought Adjuster is in direct and constant communion contact
with the Father on Paradise and likewise with His headquarters on
Divinington.  So, here you are with a direct hotline to the Infinite. 
With this instantaneous connectivity of the Father, this Thought
Adjuster can be considered as residing both within your mind and at
the center of all things, for the qualities of the Thought Adjuster
are such that it is not handicapped by spatial conditions.  For that
matter, its only handicap is your future attainments, as yet
unacquired. 
	So, having expressed to you what you already understand, let me
comment about your discussion.
	You know that you have been asked to do the will of God, to
seek to understand it, and to seek appropriate avenues to express
this will.  The very presence of the Father within you is the will of
the Father.  You are destined one day to fuse in eternal union with
this will of the Father.  Today, as ascended children on Earth, you
are learning to do the will of the Father.  Not long in your future
you are destined to become united with the will of the Father, as
one; being and doing as one.  So, in your perplexities over the
differences between "being" and "doing", how Michael went about doing
good, how he was and is good, the distinctions become clear in light
of the presence of the Father within you.
	Rather than continuing to add a few more observations, I desire
to receive your feedback so that we may continue in a dialogue
fashion.
	Mark:  I appreciate and love you.  Respecting our encounter on
the coast in South Carolina, the session down there meant a lot.  I
was reaching into the darkness, and you reached back.  Thank you. 
*	Elyon:  I receive your thanks and I reciprocate, for I
witnessed in you that great leap of faith, willingness to, in a
sense, march into Jerusalem, to go up against the odds of acceptance,
to face the perils of judgment based on doubt, and to express with
deep sincerity, honesty, and trust in the Father what you know to be
true, in hopes that your associate would benefit from the experience. 
Even your concerns over being able to be an effective conduit has
demonstrated your integrity; it has placed you on a list of those who
we can trust to function even when up against personal discomfort. 
So, I am equally grateful.
	Mark:  I offer you all my verbal commitment to be of assistance
whenever appropriate.
	 I am aware of the Father presence, but it is you and others
who have helped bridge the long gap between what faith believes and
the reality we exist in.  I've been experiencing a definite
enhancement of sensitivity to truth, beauty, and goodness in my life. 
I look forward to our fruitful cooperation.
	Evelyn:  You are saying that when we fuse we will be doing and
being God's will at once.  
	Elyon:  It is further noteworthy to understand that your fusion
with the Father is a oneness of being that, even as you act in the
will of the Father prior to attaining fusion status, you function in
oneness with the Thought Adjuster.  This is a state of being.  It's
not that you and the Father are doing the same thing, it is that you
are being one.  Your doing and His doing are one.  
	The Father, in the condition of eternity, is.  However, the
immense universe surrounding Him is the great stage upon which
"doing" is occurring.  In the case of you mortals, this "doing" is
the attainment of "being" in union with the Father.
	The Father did not see being the infinite I AM as the end-all. 
If so, we would not exist.  "Doing" is as valuable as "being".  The
secret to "being" is resident in the Thought Adjuster.  Michael
realized this in his earth life; this is what propelled his ministry. 
For you to follow the master, all you need do is to acquire the
viewpoint of the Father through worshipful contact with the Thought
Adjuster and loving ministry to your fellows.  Then you will better
understand those phrases that you have had questions about over the
past few weeks that deal with the state of being of Michael and His
actions, and your state of being and your actions.  "Being" is not
the acquirement of skill or of experience or of the necessary
training for the valuable skills and expanding experiences.  Being,
the secret of it, lies in union with the Father.  I cannot stress
this enough, for this is your most immediate goal as an individual
personality.
	Do you have other input?
	Evelyn:  That last part does contradict what we were saying. 
We decided that "being" was acquired skills.  You are a musician once
you've acquired at least some skills of that field.  Are you limiting
"being" in terms of God's will?.  Then "being" is union with the
Father?
*	Elyon:  You have detected my attempt at subtle correction. 
However, I should clarify that the "being" I speak of is of the order
of existential qualities rather than a Supreme experiential "being"
which you are illustrating in your comment to me.  It is a
distinction between a gift of God and an acquirement of a creature. 
I do not intend in the least to value one higher than the other, only
to indicate the significance of "being" in relation to the Father's
presence.  Does this help?
	Evelyn:  I'll have to think about it.  Tapping into your
essence, not so much what you have experienced, as our origin of
being with God, having a greater awareness of that. 
*	Elyon: Yes, quite correct.  The unity attained with the Father
is a state of being not like other attained "being"s.  You, as a
finaliter on Paradise, will be finaliters.  This is wholly dependent
upon your ascension.  You in fusion with your Thought Adjuster will
be God.  This is independent of the fact that you have yet to
experientially climb to the shores of Paradise and undertake the
divine embrace thereon.  This "being" is independent of the "doing',
though it is not absolving of the requirement to do that which will
bring the becoming.
	So, I in no way imply an easy shortcut, but I do wish to assure
you of the reality of the Father and His complete support for you,
His willingness to actually be you, independent of your abilities to
live up to the standards that you hold as that which is a son or
daughter of God.
	I wish for more input from you all.
	Mark:  Would you have any suggestions of possible themes or
activities for the upcoming Michael's birthday celebration?
*	Elyon:  In jest I say, hand everyone a hammer, and let's get
some things done.
	 I am somewhat reluctant to offer a theme, for it is my
approach to observe the theme you select that is indicative of your
desires, and my staff and I are quite capable of teaching under any
banner.
	However, I would state the obvious, that it is a day to
celebrate Michael's sojourn on Urantia.  You could focus some
activities on the quality of his life and his approach thereto, the
conditions of the world when he lived here, and how all this may
foster your current activities for spiritualizing this planet.  What
Jesus would do in any circumstance is a valuable resource for
insight.  However, it is impossible to mimic his life.  The world has
changed, and you are not Creator Sons.  So, creative adaptation of
his life could be a good focus on the weekend.  How's that?
	Mark:  Thank you.  I'm looking for discussion topics, and I
will include that.  It's our responsibility to come up with the
program, I understand, but I'm open to suggestions.
	Tom:  In light of Machiventa's suggestions to use intuition, to
rely on it; it also was mentioned that intuition is a tool for
contact.  I've reviewed the triangles.  Briefly:  starting with the
Father we go through truth, beauty, and goodness.  Off each of these
is a triangle -- one of which is wisdom which includes intuition,
intellect, and insight.  I understand putting a problem in the middle
of a triangle and, with our adjuster, stroll around the three
corners.  I understand intellect is not intelligence.  Each of these
three probably has it's own triangle, each of which has another under
it, down to the ultimaton.
	Am I right?  If so, could you include something that might shed
some light on intuition?
*	Elyon:  You have been a great detective.  You have discerned
what lies beneath the tip of the iceberg of this teaching.  There are
threefold relationships that continue on expanding one below the
other all the way to the exhaustion of the presence of the Supreme.
	I would make one comment about intellect and state, in
correction, that the triangle includes insight, intelligence and
intuition.  Intelligence is distinct from intellect in that one need
not be highly intellectual to be intelligent.  Intelligence implies
the use of mind rather than one of its faculties.  However, it is
quite apparent that most human beings use intellect to function
intelligently, so there is relationship. 
	Intuition has a threefold dimension which can be considered
another triangle: trust, discernment, and action.  These aren't
exclusive wholly to intuition, but they rare very important in the
effective contribution intuition has to the acquirement of wisdom and
the realization of truth.  Without discernment, one continues on
blindly.  Without trust, one merely has seen, but there the input of
intuition dies without action.
	Does this help?
	Tom:  Very much so.  I'm looking forward to the other
triangles, but sufficient unto the day are the triangles thereof.
	Mark:  Excellent question, Tom.
*	Elyon:  In the effort to alleviate too much curiosity as to
what other descriptive words can be placed beneath each point in
these triangles to form others, I would let you know that there is
transfer-ability.  Simply because one word is used in one threefold
relationship does not exclude it from another.  Patterns will repeat
themselves.  
	As you ascend, in your personal efforts to do so, you will
climb up from the many triangle corners to the highest apex, that
being love.  As you minister you will proceed in the opposite
direction.  You may not have the opportunity to minister about love
or about truth or goodness or even faith.  But you may have the
opportunity to minister about discernment or trust.  Though the
subject of love may not get expressed, love is being expressed
because of the relationship in this triangular superstructure of
love.  
	We can and will over time delve into more of these.  I will
also say that many of these subjects have been woven into our lessons
over the years and will continually be so, for this is the content of
our teaching to you, to burnish each point, to bring light to shine
upon each point, and to contribute to your becoming active in every
one of these corners, for you to become a whole being in your own
self as is the Father in His own self and eventually as we all will
be in the Supreme self.
	 One point will leverage you up a level to another triad
relationship and so on.  Likewise, any node in this complex matrix is
a launch point outward, downward, in a ministry sense, for stepping
to the level of experience that another is on.
	More will be forthcoming on this subject in time.
	Tom:  Thank you.
	Evelyn:  Thinking about some of the patterns you've mentioned
before, I see trust is the upreaching; discernment is processing, and
action is the outreaching.
	I see discerning is of the one, actions are many, and trust is
in the whole.
	Tom:  Science, philosophy, and religion:  Science is the
action; discernment being philosophy, and trust being religion.
	Or thing, meaning, and value:  Action is the thing, discernment
the meaning, and trust is the value.
	Evelyn:  Wow!
*	Elyon:  I say, well done to both of you.  If you keep this up
I'll have no more to teach.  Yes, these patterns will run throughout,
for relationship ...  that incorporates distinctly different elements
... relationship requires distinction.  When you have become fused
with your Thought Adjuster, the distinctions of your relationship
cease.  As you grow in universe supremacy, relationships will
continually heighten to their maximum expression.  These two future
experiences in your life are in themselves distinct from one another
and create another relationship.  It is expressive of pattern.  When
you seek to perceive pattern you are, in a morontia sense, realizing
lessons in every triangle, for the awareness of the pattern causes
you to apply it in any of the specific triangular relationships.
	This statement I make is the very reason why revelators of the
Urantia Papers say that, to any God-believing mortal, all occupations
are sacred, for it is in the grasp of the pattern that makes the
sacred qualities of the occupation.
	I will withdraw today and do so with this parting comment: 
that if you can do the triangle of discernment, trust, and action you
will be intuitive.  Attempt to practice this.  I would hope that each
of you would have some experiences to share at your following
meeting.
	I now step back.  Thank you.