Elyon Group 10/4/98

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topic:Spiritual light
Teachers: Elyon, Stephen

October 4, 1998
*	Elyon  (Jonathan TR):  I greet you today; this is Elyon, your
friend and your teacher and as well a student beneficiary of your
exchanges.  I express to you that it is with great joy that I come to
be with you.  Joy seems to be an appropriate word; love would
likewise hold true, however, I think that it would not be correct to
say that it is with great patience that I come visit you, for I am
pleased to witness each one of your efforts to progress on your
ascension path.
	Today I would like to make mention of a few perspectives that
you may attempt to hold and view during your daily exchanges with
others.  We could call this "Father-optics".
	You have made prayer regarding the line of contact between the
Father and yourself.  This is the highest, purist universe
communication circuit there is.  Michael, while sojourning on your
world, profoundly expressed that, "He who has seen me has seen the
Father."  You will understand the context in which he was able to
make this statement.  He also taught that his children can come to
love with a Father's affection, with a compassion and an insight
which is transcendent of brotherhood.  Let us combine this request of
Michael for you to love as the Father loves with his statement that
he who has seen him has seen the Father.  Today I wish that you
further work on seeing with the eye of the Father, to behold your
fellows with the degree of insight and compassion that is the
presence of the Father within you that you are able to reach.  Do not
worry over shortcoming, but rather be engaged in reaching your
current maximum ability.
	When you approach your life as one walking with the Father
continually, all that you look upon takes on a new view.  Your values
shift.  Activities rearrange themselves in importance.  Although
another may not hear from you the words of spiritual comfort that you
have come to understand, they will witness visually the presence of
the Father as He radiates through you.  Where Michael was the full
revelation of the Father to his universe children, you each and in
eventual combination will become like him, a collective revelation of
the Father.  It is this collectivity that displaces the need to be
concerned over your shortcomings; you each one are not required to be
the full revelation of the Father.  You are asked to be a maximum
revelation of the Father as you are capable of revealing Him at any
time.  When you join together in fellowship, the Father is more
greatly revealed and beheld by you all.
	Outside of the orders of beings who are either divine in origin
or gifted with talents such as reflectivity, human beings are one of
the few creatures with such immediate and direct connection to the
First Source and Center.  All that preceded the revelation of
creation in the first place is resident within your very deep being. 
You possess the ability to reveal the Father.  This I hope to
solemnly convey to you.  May it become a revelation to your soul;
struggle not in the mind as to being worthy of such exemplification.
	Not one thing in the life of Jesus was undertaken that was not
also an opportunity that you, yourself, may undergo, and this is
because all his decisions and actions were based on the will of the
Father, and he continually, unceasingly taught that all likewise may
do the same.  Seek and know the will of the Father.  Live and reveal
the Father to others.  He could say this with surety for he knew that
his children are indwelt by this very Father.  To you who have sought
and experienced and know the Father, you have every reason to
faith-grasp that you are worthy mirrors that reflect His presence;
you are that optical connection to the soul of another.  If their
eyes are open they will perceive.  And for each of you time will
continually present new opportunities for greater perception
yourself.  Just as no truth is fully assimilated into your reservoir
of wisdom until it is taught, actually demonstrated, likewise
revealing the Father brings higher and greater experience when you
begin to reveal Him as you know Him at this hour.
	Thank you for letting me share this with you today, and I
remain with you.
	Tom:  I have heard how thoughts have power.  I'm aware of the
energy my thoughts have within my own being, but I'm at a loss to see
how my thoughts have any power outside of myself.  Can you explain
how that works so I don't go filling the universe with wrong
thoughts?
*	Elyon:  Thoughts are the beginning of expression and result in
two of the more familiar modes of expression: action and
verbalization.  Thoughts may more correctly be thought of as
resulting in power.  Thoughts are themselves an energy which the will
can then apply and transform into statements or actions.  Here is
where the power lies; it is in the outworking of your thoughts that
change is made.  This points to the reason for you to be the
caretaker, the one on watch over your thoughts.  Since you are as yet
in body, in physical form, your mind which is the stage upon which
thoughts play themselves out is linked with the physical brain
mechanism, and this, for your stage of development, is good.  By this
I mean that creatures of will higher up the personality orders are
capable of creating thoughts through their own deliberate action. 
You are, at your stage, equipped with a brain that will continually
generate the possibility of thought even when you are not necessarily
desiring to think.  This ongoing electrochemical noise keeps you
stimulated. In a sense it is like your popcorn makers, ever
generating a notion, an emotion, an idea, a stimulus, and joining
this is the Father's presence which is the Thought Adjuster.  Your
thoughts are sandwiched between the mechanical generation of the
brain and the divine overcontrol of the Thought Adjuster.
	There is one other aspect to the power of thought that we must
address, and that is: you are, by your choosing, the focus of your
thinking, creating the soul.  Your soul is the secret to all your
futurity, all that you will attain.  Your soul is your powerhouse for
eventually standing on Paradise in the Father's presence.  So, even a
thought that can be acted out, though it results in force and action,
is a weak source of power in comparison to the development of soul. 
This is the true secret to the power of thought.
	You were going to say?
	Tom:  In a sense I am what I think; if my mind is full of
aberrant thoughts, I am not so much a universe polluter as I am a
detriment to myself.
*	Elyon:  Yes, with the result that a self who is limping has
less to offer to the universe surrounding one.  I would also address
that you are what you think in the sense that what you think is a
result of what you have become.  However, you are prior to your
thinking, and in this sense, what you will become is what you let
yourself think, what you require yourself to focus upon.  So, your
being, your existence, is not determined by your thoughts; your
thoughts are reflective of your being.  It is reflective of your
current status and in no way will hinder who you will become, for
your ability to choose is always able to override your thinking and
allow you to proceed to higher thought patterns and behaviors.  
	Tom:  You mentioned thought, word, and action.  I see a
triangle.  Then, with the Thought Adjuster's help in the middle of
this triangle, I can effect by the actions I take and the words I
use?  Or is it will or desire?
*	Elyon:  To use this triangular relationship, let us view it in
its three dimensional form of the pyramid, and let us place will at
the apex with thoughts, action, and words at the three-pointed base. 
Then you will see how they interrelate, for, yes, as thoughts effect
verbal and physical actions, the other two do effect your thoughts
all under the command of your will.  This is why many people are even
this morning across this country listening to sermons by ministers,
because they understand that the words likewise effect their
thoughts.  They chose to attend, chose to listen and benefit from the
redirection of their thoughts, which result in new actions and
changed speaking.
	When Michael said, "Whatever a man thinketh in his heart, he is
thereby" was indicating the power of will, not so much the content of
the thought, but the power of your selection of what you will think
about.
	Mary:  Tom was trying to bring the Thought Adjuster into the
triangle.  My idea is that the Thought Adjuster, being the pilot
light, is like the light to which the moth of our will is drawn.  We
can direct it, but the pilot light guides it to divine ways of
thinking, acting.
*	Elyon:  Yes, very well expressed.  In a sense we could
visualize this pyramid of thought, word, and action as sort of
floating in space and aimlessly rotating, randomly moving into
rotating in one direction or another like a lost compass needle and
the presence of the Thought Adjuster as being the magnetic pole. 
When the will lines up, thought, word, and action follow naturally.
	I do like your moth analogy, for the metaphorical implications
of a moth to a flame are profound when considering fusion creatures.  
	Mary:  Magnetism and moths to flames are all an attractive
force drawing one to the other.  Unlike the magnetism, when we speak
of triangles, when the Thought Adjuster spins them in a cohesive
direction, that's good, too.
	As far as fusion, if a moth is drawn to a flame, if we can take
our will, and if our thoughts, words, and actions follow our will, if
we fuse our will to the divine will, there we have it.  Once our will
is in line, we won't have to worry about what we are thinking,
saying, or doing.
*	Elyon:  Much of human uncertainty and the value of spiritual
faith is that pre-fusion children are still caterpillars, and you
are, through faith, inching your way toward the flame.  The moth that
is the soul will eventually fuse, but in the meantime you are having
to crawl on the ground and laboriously make effort to reach this
desired event.  This also illustrates how a human being can at one
moment feel that lofty flight of spiritual engagement and the next
feel so earthbound, so worldly, so stuck in the mud.  It is because
you have yet to undergo the full transformation, the full
metamorphosis of yourself from a creature of Life Carrier design into
a child of Fatherly design.
	I would make another comment, and this would fit the imagery of
concentric spheres, that your caterpillar-ness surrounds your
moth-ness which surrounds your flame.  All you need do is collapse,
implode within, in order to experience this presence of God.
*	Stephen  (Mark):  I would greet you all here today as one who
does not often take voice.  This is Stephen.  I simply desire to
exercise boldness and  to force my presence on you here today.  As a
personal teacher often I am in the wings observing the activities of
the group and of my charge, my student.  I simply desire to thank you
all for the assimilation of the group.  We as teachers get to engage
in conferences of sorts, and our union is due to your union.  For
this I offer you my thanks, as it has been my pleasure to become
involved with you as individuals and as a group and also with those
of your personal teachers who I have had reason to contact.
	I would repeat the phrase, as above, so below.  We enjoy our
meetings and look forward to our exchanges much as you enjoy yours. 
It is truly a beneficial exercise for all involved.  I desire for you
to realize that you are not the only recipients of all this goodness,
that you only experience the tip of the iceberg in your existence, a
very limited view of what in fact is a large superstructure
surrounding this process and our relationships.
	I look forward to the time together as we work towards inching
our way to the flame.  We do this in joy and with love and excitement
for what is to come.
	I thank you for this time today.  It is a pleasure to be with
you always.  
*	Elyon (Jonathan):  I would express for you to hear, it is for
me a very cherished event, and that is that I am part of this
Teaching Mission effort on Urantia.  I thank Michael for ordaining me
and for the melchizedeks who trained me, and for my many associates
who support and sustain in the efforts to help this world, and for
the most wonderful gift of all, that is, to become your friend, to
get to know personally each of you and to participate as one in
mutual love in your growth.
	I could list with the many significant decisions in my life the
choice to volunteer to be your teacher as one of the most
significant.  You may not necessarily discern the reasons why I might
consider it so significant.  When you have ascended to where I am now
in my process of reaching the Father on Paradise, you will better
comprehend what I mean. 
	Mark:  I can only imagine, my friend, but if you think it ranks
high on your list, you should see how it looks on our lists.  We very
much appreciate your efforts and your decisions.