[tmtranscripts] Elyon Group 9/26/99

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Accumulative effects of wisdom, worship, and service; Visitors
Teachers: Malvantra, Elyon

September 26, 1999
*	Machiventa (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, this is Machiventa. I have the
pleasure of attending to your class today.  We have addressed many concepts in
the past that pertain to your triads; today I would like to take another look at
worship and make some comparisons to service and wisdom.
	We have unceasingly encouraged you to practice the stillness, and you have
been ever gracious in continually receiving our admonition.  Though I know you
all struggle with the practice, you hold it as a high value and understand the
implications.  Worship and service are two functions of the spiritual
personality
that appear to oscillate: at one point you are engaged; at another point you
retire, that you may even -- not just serve and rest, serve again and rest,
worship and then do other things, worship and do other things -- rather, worship
and serve, then worship and serve.  These two engagements of the personality
aren't often seen clearly as a progressive experience.  Let me draw in wisdom to
illustrate how worship and service can become accumulative.
	Goodness is ever contrasted with evil, beauty with ugliness, truth with
error, falsehood.  In the acquirement of wisdom and the undergoing of
experience,
ignorance is displaced by wisdom, and wisdom becomes a forever possession of
your
personality.  Ignorance may be properly perceived as future experience. 
Ignorance is not just being stupid, uninformed; it is the vast range of
potential
ahead of you through which you have not lived.  Just as evil is not a
reality but
rather the absence of goodness, ignorance is the absence of wisdom.  Experience
is at the border zone between wisdom and ignorance.  When you have acquired the
experience and gained the wisdom, it is never lost.  It accumulates and you grow
wiser, more perceptive, and more skilled at applying yourself to the new
experiences coming at you from this potential realm I call "ignorance".
	Trust likewise that your practice of stillness is accumulative.  Every
effort pushes you forward in your ability to make the Fatherly connection.  Hold
in your mind the view that you will never slip back from any worship experience
and not be able to undergo that same encounter again and even more so with
deeper
sensibility.
	You have shared today a few experiences about sharing with others spiritual
concepts and knowing, discerning, when to cease your revelations for the benefit
of the receiver, so that they gain and not be taken aback from your comments. 
This is a beautiful example of the cumulative effect of service.  Every
engagement of this nature builds your abilities to undertake another engagement
that, at this point in your progress, would be over your head.  So, while you
realize that worship and service are always playing back and forth with each
other, they accumulate in your soul warehouse just as does wisdom.  They are
progressive, not just an activity to undertake and set aside until another
time. 
They are not isolated events that stand alone apart from others, but build one
after the other.  Wisdom is integral and so is worship and likewise service.
	I hope this will bring fruit in your lives.  To the mind of the mortal
creature and often to many other beings near you in status, and likewise for
quite a few higher yet, the discernment of the Father distinctly from the
Son and
the Spirit can be difficult, and that is because these triune personalities
function integratedly as God.  In their revelation to the universe of
Themselves,
they reflect this same triunity in such things as wisdom and worship and
service. 
This is why I am able to approach the understanding of one of these with the
mechanisms of another, for they all ultimately lead to a deeper experience
of the
Father, and that is, after all, your single purpose for existence.
	Thank you for receiving my words today.
*	Elyon:  Greetings, brothers and sisters, this is Elyon.  It comes as no
surprise to you that Machiventa would be here today, as you have grown
accustomed
to his presence and teachings.  I am pleased that you regard his words with a
solemnness of import, and I also am pleased that you are casual about his
attendance.  He is, after all, a teacher and not your Creator.
	I would relate to you that we have here today ambassadors from other
systems, who have been likewise affected by rebellion, who are researching
methods that we employ to minister to these recuperating worlds in this system. 
They are assured in their tour of Urantia that things will work out in their
neighborhoods as it is doing so here.  I do not mean to make you feel that you
are under the spotlight of scrutiny but to take you into our confidence, in a
sense, to include you in some of our projects.  The teachers, while most anxious
to be presenting words of ministry to you, are also quite busy in such
activities
as this; taking these foreigners, if I may use that term, around to view our
efforts.  You who have chosen to cooperate with us, we elect to inform you of
these activities.
	That makes me desire to comment on the value of experience and on the value
of observation as a form of experience, for you can study the activities of your
friends, your fellows, and learn as they reflect to you what they are gaining
through their process, their unfoldment.  You can take these back home, that is,
to yourself and enrich your own processes through this observation.
	Some of those who come to view this Correcting Time effort of the
melchizedeks in Nebadon as it works out in this system of Satania come from
normal realms unaffected by rebellion.  They equally are as curious and
interested in the process, even though there is no problem of a similar nature
existing in their confines.  That is because observation is a teacher.  By
observing another's experience with a spiritual eye you enrich yourself and
better enable you to perceive with foresight what some entirely different
individual may be heading into, about to experience.  You can then, with a
parental perspective, be of assistance.  This does not mean that you may step in
the way and thwart an experience that will prove good because you would know
from
observations in the past they proved wrong to another, but that you will be a
guiding hand in easing one into the experience such that they may derive even
more benefit therefrom.
	So, as you plunge headlong into your experiences of the spiritual ascent to
the Father, do always look about you and observe the millions of beings around
who are also climbing.  You will broaden your viewpoint; your perspective will
become panoramic.
	Though Michael lived one life and engaged in conversation with many --
though yet few -- people, he gained a thorough understanding of the nature of
mankind by observing.  When it comes to growth one might say it's every man for
himself, for you must, you yourself, make the growth steps.  But we are all in
this together, and there is inevitably the overlapping and the commingling that
is so essential and places great import upon fellowship.
	I thank you.
	Mark:  To Elyon and the assembled observers and our attendant melchizedek
friends and those we are unaware of I welcome any and all participants and
observers in this process.
	We are engaged in this exercise together that we stretch our faith muscles
to believe without seeing.  We gain very much from this contact.  It speaks to
the lesson just delivered that we share this time, and you not only gain from
observation of our floundering experiences on this plane, but that somehow we
gain something in this exchange of your vastness of experience.  For that we are
grateful. We may seem casual, and it does become routine, but I hope we have not
lost sight of the unusual and special condition that exists during these
times of
communication.  It means a great deal to come in contact with all of you,
assistants to Michael.  Our lives have been uplifted by your willingness to
participate in this project with us.  I offer our further and continued support,
that we grow together, that we glean from all the lessons you have so freely
offered us, and that we may be all that we can be and perhaps assist you in this
process however that may play out.  Heartfelt thanks for your volunteer efforts
on our world's behalf.  I express this with sincerity and love for all of you
whom I cannot see, but I know are there. 
*	Elyon:  I receive your words with deep gratitude.  Lester tells me to tell
you that, though I praise you quite often, that I must step forward and say that
there are times when I feel like you are all my puppies, and I can't keep you in
the box.  To let me continue with that metaphor, we were trained as instructors
to be alert to any symptoms that would contribute to your being like unruly
puppies that need to be either tied up or run wild.  This has not panned out in
those who have elected to be engaged in this Correcting Time mission.  You are
all growing so well that you can be in the yard with the gate open and you
function appropriately.  I believe it is because you hold in your hearts the
very
truth of the words you have just conveyed.
	Evelyn:  Would it be possible to hear any comments or suggestions coming
from these ambassadors from their experiences?
*	Elyon:  They are impressed with the method of approach that we have
undertaken with this believing without seeing, as you have stated, way of
communicating with you.  Normally throughout all evolutionary worlds teachers
like myself are visible, are resident at headquarters on these planets, and you
have better access to them with a simpler form of trust but a valuable trust. 
They are encouraged to witness that there is resident within mankind the
apparatus for grasping without this visible guidance.  The agondonter is a
species to behold.  This is encouraging for those who have their own
conflicts to
correct in their realm.  It is also a manifestation of amazement in those who
have not had these conflicts, these quarantines and isolations, to deal with in
being of assistance to their evolutionary brothers.     
	Tom:  I have a question about last week's transmission.  Regarding
relationship, unless you are able to be intimate with the Father and with
yourself you will encounter difficulty with another person.  Could you explain
how we can become more intimate with ourselves?  I assume practicing the
presence
of the Father and silence would aid in establishing intimacy with Him, but being
honest with yourself may be a possibility.
*	Elyon:  That precisely would have been my first statement.  Honesty is an
expedient method for intimacy with oneself, that fearless facing of reality, in
this case your character, your behavioral patterns, your mental inclinations. 
Reflectivity is a part of this honesty.  Be willing to return upon actions
reflectively such that you can correlate one event with another in a continuity
that will bring a bigger understanding of your own self, that connectivity
between all demands in your life as well as your choices.  The planting of a
flower in your yard and the selling of your stocks in the marketplace all tie
together to one who has a spiritual viewpoint of themselves.  Reflectivity will
help make the associations; honesty will help you draw a conclusion or
heightened
perspective and will go great lengths toward you even beginning to make these
associations.
	Intimacy implies a deeper knowing of something or someone, and this deeper
knowing is knowing more about in a broader way as well.  You are far more than a
laborer, a parent, a friend, or whatever other category of function you would
select.  You can know more about yourself in any one field, and you can know
more
about yourself by making the interconnection of every field with each other.
So,
I guess to summarize my comments, intimacy of self arises from depth and
breadth,
and this comes through being honest and reflective.
	You all have made Michael your friend.  If you make yourself your friend,
your confidant, you will be more likely to frankly face your issues.  How often
have you been stirred at the witness of the trials and tribulations of another
and wish that you could be of assistance?  At times you can, and at times you
understand that you must let them undergo those experiences for growth's sake. 
But the drive, the desire, to serve your friend is good.  If you are your own
friend you will be far more helpful when you perceive yourself heading into
trials.  You will be more likely to assist yourself rather than be only, if
I may
use the word, a victim.  What I mean is you are letting these experiences
have an
effect upon you with less amount of you having a causative, active role in it. 
Victim is a bit strong, but it does imply this sense of absence of power in
self.  
	Does this help?
	Tom:  Yes, thank you.
*	Elyon:  I will conclude today, as I need to take my visitors to lunch. 
Farewell.