[tmtranscripts] Elyon Group 10/03/99

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Blessed are the Shepherds, Disappointment, Power of Will
Teachers: Rantarason, Elyon, Andrew

October 3, 1999
*	Rantarason (Sheila TR):  Greetings.  I am your brother, your friend,
Rantarason.
	Blessed are the shepherds who assist the flock in the direction of the
Lord.  In your willingness to serve, in your willingness to be an example, you
are fulfilling the prayers of many who are losing hope, who have lost hope, who
have lost direction, who are afraid to take another step forward.  Your
universal
career asks of you to allow each moment to be given value, not just for
assistance here to others, but for your personal career.  Every single step that
you take in the action of service has been gifted back to you, but more so your
actions gift all of the universe and are indeed a proclamation of your own
truth,
beauty, and goodness, your acknowledgment of your relationship with your own
personal God Fragment, your oneness with the Supreme.
	As we observe with great privilege your desires, your actions, your love
and encouragement, they, too, make a beautiful song with just as much effect on
us as your song this morning made upon you.  To watch you all together makes
harmony and encourages us to, as well, desire the oneness, the silence.  We are
in much gratitude for your beautiful song this morning.  I thank you.
*	Elyon (Jonathan):  Greetings, this is Elyon, your friend.  I would like to
present to you a few thoughts that address your discussion on disappointment and
will use comments made by Malvantra last week.  He expressed to you the
perspective that your experience, your experience in general, for that
matter, is
the intervening zone between ignorance and wisdom, that ignorance is not
negative
in the sense of being bad but rather simply the absence of wisdom.  As ignorance
passes through experience, wisdom results, and that wisdom is a cumulative; you
do not lose what is gained.  This brings me to my point.  Free will is the
central, critical aspect of the entire mechanism.
	I'm sure each of you recognizes events in your life when you gained wisdom,
you have grown.  Your insight expands.  You even feel greater capability at
addressing a recurring event with skill due to your wisdom, and yet you have
noticed times when you have reacted, you have behaved, as though that wisdom
were
never yours.  So it appears that you have lost that wisdom.  I assert that the
wisdom is yet present; it is the volitional center of the personality that has
failed to apply itself.
	Imagine being the young child you once were, just able to peer over the
edge of a table to see objects near that edge that are within reach and to view
objects beyond reach, yet visible.  Let us call this table filled with objects
that potential realm that has been dubbed "ignorance".  You reach, you can grasp
some, you experience, you gain wisdom.  Others you reach for, they topple over
and roll out of range.  Here enters disappointment.  Some of those objects
are so
beyond reach, and yet your desire to accumulate them is as strong as for those
nearer to your experiential band, your zone of capable acquirement of wisdom. 
Applying free will such that you progress toward mastery of choice means
that you
learn to select between potentials near to you in attainment and potentials that
are so off in the future that you must let them be until you have worked
your way
up to them, until you, like the child, have grown tall enough to reach further
across the table.
	I observe in each of you enough maturity and spiritual vision to realize
that your disappointments contribute to your growth.  They are not roadblocks to
progress.  You all understand that disappointments, like many other factors, are
the tools that strengthen your spiritual muscles.  You can avoid many
disappointments by recognizing their proximity to your experience-ability.
	To a young child eyes and ears that see and hear consume much of the
attention.  In the course of becoming acquainted with these senses, likes and
dislikes develop.  Feelings, values, are established, and as the child grows
into
adulthood, will develops. Selectivity, preference, and adaptability are
acquired. 
This is the secret of happiness through all difficulty.  You may see, you may
hear, you may feel, you may think, but the will-center of the personality is the
activator, and I mean activation not only in the positive sense of expression,
but in its retiring sense of choosing no, choosing to abstain.  This power of
choice that resides within you all becomes your filter, the screen, whereby you
can avoid recurring disappointment, having already acquired wisdom in the
previous lessons, and permit those disappointments that will enrich your growth.
	Your future is not only long in its eternity, but it is wide in its
infinity.  This eternity and infinity are receptive to but one thing and that is
choice.  Like the table of the young one who can barely reach across it, the
universe is not graspable in one simple reach.  You must choose your method.  Do
you stand on your toes?  Do you pull up a chair?  Do you fold down a leaf that
you can reach better?  These are your choices.
	You are amply assisted.  The Father Himself is present within, and a host
of brothers and sisters stand ready to be of assistance to pass you some of
those
objects you crave that are not only your will but the Father's that you receive.
	I will also repeat another point from last week, and that is that it falls
on your shoulders that you choose to grow.  It is your responsibility, but
we are
a family on a universe scale that works in harmony.  Be not hesitant to
intermingle, to fellowship, to draw from one another's experiences, as you do in
your weekly sharing at these meetings.  You have witnessed how one person may
have difficulty lifting another, but with ten people around one person, simply
the fingers alone are enough to lift an individual.  This is how the children of
God function together.
	I thank you today for hearing me.  I can address your questions or
comments.  I do have many of my kind here who came likewise to speak to you.
	John:  We have choices, yet we give our will over to the Father.  This is
confusing.  We had a car that was within reach but the timing wasn't.  We have
been given gifts, surprises.  I feel like a puppet, like you guys are putting
stuff in front of us to help us grow.  Maybe the key is to not have expectations
in order to not have disappointment.  We don't know what will happen with so
many
other forces directing things.
*	Elyon:  You have well expressed the mechanism involved.  You display your
wise insight in recognizing the inner workings of not only your will but the
wills of many around you.  That ultimately is the will of the Father, that all
things be considered in harmony.  It is good to affirm and to pursue your
desires, but to carry them to the extreme, as you say, expectation, is to
interject the element of demand and to disallow the possibility for variance. 
Hope is not expectation.  Hope relies in faith.  Expectation borders on
requirement.
	John:  I've worked on my book for five years now.  55,000 books try to get
published each year; there's a lot of energy in that.  There's hope but there's
some expectation that we're not just spinning our wheels.  Sometimes the joy and
compassion leave; you get burned out.
	Elyon:  I will call your attention to a game you have developed on this
world where you have little plastic squares in a frame, each one numbered and
scrambled.  These numbers, the goal of the game is to line them up.  At first it
appears easy; excitement is great; success is advancing quite well until you
have
set all these possible configurations into order, and the difficulty increases
until at the end of your task you must, in order to accomplish the goal, shuffle
around the previously established correct order to make the whole fall in line. 
In the case of your publishing efforts it may appear at times that what
order you
have progressed through to reach your current state must seem to crumble in
order
to shuffle the factors involved and attain the completed course.  This I say to
you, my friend, is where you are now.  Even the title of your book is going
through this shuffle, appearing to step back, appearing to go to square one in
finding a title, but it is part of the repositioning of potentials in order to
bring the entire result.  Like this game of yours, it starts out easy and does
increase in difficulty.  So, when feeling at a loss as to the next course of
action, observe in your near field of potential action what you can do today. 
Never lose sight of your future goal but know that the future goal is but yet
another day, and this will help you shuffle these little plastic squares and
carry you towards the finish.
*	Andrew (Ginnie):  Greetings, this is Andrew.  (Ginnie:  This is a strange
teacher for me, so I am having a little difficulty.)  I am one who is working
with the mechanics of inspiration.  I assist those who try to share their
insight
with others in the form of writing, music, art, dance.  I address you, John, as
one who wishes to share what you have so assiduously pursued and are so eager to
release.  I address your statement about losing joy, that your enthusiasm is
diminishing.  Am I correct?
	John:  That is correct.
*	Andrew:  The very nature of the arts is expression is some form, and this
is what you desire.  It is a form of action; your desire is a form of
action, and
to have that thwarted is very frustrating.  But there are other avenues for you
to share what you have written.  Do you need a publisher's permission to share?
	John:  No.  I've shared without a publisher, one on one.
*	Andrew:  Very good.  There are ways to share what you have written, maybe
in smaller segments.  I'm sure this group would love to hear some of it.
You can
release some of the enthusiasm, some of your eagerness, in this manner.  Some of
your frustration may be dissipated in this manner.
	Everyone's thoughts and ideas and  inspirations are valuable.  You do not
need permission to share them.  I urge you to think of ways that you can make
your efforts available in your own way, for you have put a lot of time and
effort
into this enterprise, and it is, indeed, worthy of an audience.  You can share
through your computers.  There is no need to keep information secret.   We urge
all worthy efforts to be expressed in some form.  I congratulate you on your
dedication and urge you to seek ways of sharing.
	I also have a word to the group about the power of your will.  When you
face a situation even as practical as choosing a car or choosing a book or
choosing a house, that your will is supreme.  Even the Father and all His
assistants are subject to your will.  The forces that you perceive outside
of you
are subject to your will.  The one universal mandate that all of the teachers
have is that they not interfere with your will.  They act when you are ready and
when you choose.  The result, unfortunately, is incidental, even though you
humans seem to place a lot of weight on the result.  The gift is in your will. 
The gift is in the opportunity for you to choose that which you think is
best for
you.  Even when the result is disappointing, your free choice is supreme.
	I am touched by all of you today in your efforts to share your inspirations
and your knowledge and your efforts to express yourself, because in the
expression of yourself you are expressing the Father who dwells in you.  Do not
degrade self expression as selfish.  You are expressing the gift of the Father;
you are expressing the Father each time you express your deepest insights and
feelings, for the Father participates in everything that is worthwhile and
enhances the growth of truth, beauty, and goodness.  I applaud each of you in
your particular ways of expression, for you are each unique and very individual.
	It has been a pleasure being with you this morning.  I take my leave.
	Tom:  Elyon, I have a question.  Last week Machiventa mentioned that,
"Ignorance can be properly perceived as future experience."  Can you expand on
that please?
*	Elyon (Jonathan):  I realize, Tom, that you were engaged with some physical
disruptions at the beginning of my presentation today and would ask you to be
patient and read the following transcript, for I have addressed this some
already.  But I would repeat a little for your sake, that your future holds
great
potential, and these potentials are not in your range of vision.  As you ascend
in the universe your vision enlarges, and more potentials come into view.  But
experience turns that potential into an actuality, and in the field of wisdom,
ignorance is transformed.  I use ignorance not with the connotation it often has
of being dull or dim, uneducated.  I use it in its positive aspect of potentials
to be experienced and acquired.  This all pivots around freewill choice for this
....[tape flipped], that is, lack of experience into wisdom.  There is the
potential danger that, when you encounter the near edge of your realm of
ignorance, when ignorance is beginning its transformation into experience, that
you, like the word implies, ignore these potentials, that you can do yourself
damage in delay in acquiring the lessons presented to you.
	I hope this helps.
	Tom:  Thank you.