[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho Team 02/02/03

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Partnership with God
Teachers: Elyon

February 2, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, friends, this is Elyon.  Today I am 
going to emphasize once again the importance of the partnership you each 
have in relation to God.
	The presence of the divine within you can be difficult to discern due 
to the extent of the range of the human condition.  Naturally each of you 
is quite aware of your physicality and your mentality, for these are 
readily recognizable since they occupy most of your awareness of life.  
Each of you, however, has initiated and is continuing to foster your 
spirituality.  To the personality that is unable willingly to assert the 
reality of the spiritual aspect of the human construction, life appears to 
emerge from the dust and return thereto, to become recognizable based upon 
the mechanics and interrelations of many potentials and conditions, to 
become discreet, and then upon the cessation of life to dissipate into an 
unrecognizable form and simply another’s memory.  This is a bodily 
orientation to life.
	Upon this world, and rightly so, life is highly valued.  It is valued 
because of its temporality.  To one who does not hold a spiritual frame of 
reference life is fragile and must be preserved for as long as can be 
given the short interval of time in which life takes place in each 
individual.  To those infused with a spiritual paradigm life is also 
valuable, for it indicates an internal reality and personality out of 
which these transient forms appear and into which the budding life form 
will transform.
	The presence of the divine to the human mind is virtually invisible to 
all senses.  This presence is pure, absolutely holy, perfect, and 
powerful.  If you were to stand at the base of a mile high tower you would 
be hard pressed to describe the details at the top of the tower, for the 
distance is far too great for you to perceive.  If you were to grab hold 
of that tower you are as much connected to the very top as you are to the 
base, given the continuity of the construction and your relationship with 
it.  This divine presence is connected to you, integrated into your 
makeup.
	Upon you has likewise been bestowed several spirit ministers stemming 
from this same God through its threefold ministry as gifts of Son and 
Spirit which you know as the Spirit of Truth and Holy Spirit.  These 
surrounding influences bear upon the mind, even act upon the body, to 
heighten your sensitivity of this virtually indiscernible presence of the 
Father.  Why, it may be asked, is such a gift of divine splendor so 
difficult of discernment?  Why does the Spirit of Truth elevate the mind 
and the emotions of a human creature so easily?  I will not give you these 
answers, for the answer lies in the unfoldment of your personality and the 
development of your soul.  If you were given full awareness of this spark 
of the divine within you, that would prevent the great adventure that lies 
before you.  The wisdom of the Creator is reflected in this relationship, 
for your wisdom will be deeper if it is acquired through experience rather 
than bequeathed as a gift.
	So, a great trading of places is occurring within the sphere of your 
being.  At first what is tangible is your mortal vehicle, your flesh and 
bones frame; what is recognizable is your mind at work; what appears 
indiscernible is the spirit presence.  As you expand and unfold in your 
spiritual career a trading of places is occurring.  What is absolutely 
real, wholly divine, not only the reflection and manifestation of God but 
God Himself becomes your pivotal and anchored position for all else.  Your 
vehicle for terrestrial mobility dies on this level and is transformed 
throughout the levels following, becoming ever more indiscernible to ones 
who are now at your level.  All that can be bestowed upon you by the 
presence of the divine within is given as this trading of places proceeds.  
You however are not dissipating in form or importance as you bring into 
conscious reality God presence, for you as well have brought a gift to 
God.  This gift is the orientation of all of your being, every element and 
aspect which may be summarized as a will determined to discover the 
divine, as a faith powerful enough to propel you into the presence of the 
divine.
	Upon the completion of your pre-fusion training you will be eternally 
bonded to this divine presence.  Initially your experience will be one of 
a profound and continual unavoidable sense of God.  Up until then you will 
repeatedly experience flashes of divine consciousness and lapses into 
human short-sightedness.  As the ages unfold following your fusion 
experience this bonding will seem to become itself invisible, for you and 
divine presence will increasingly homogenize to the point that the duality 
of human and divine will cease to be.
	Religions upon your world have gone to great efforts to guide the 
human soul into the recognition of this divine within.  Many techniques 
you have developed which aid the human creature in cultivating the sense 
of the presence of God.  There is a key element to this partnership that 
we speak of today, and that is the gap between you and this presence.  
This is the miracle of life, for with yet little reflection you would 
rightly conclude that God is everywhere present.  So, you are in the 
presence of God now.  It is the development of the awareness of this 
presence that requires the gap.  For you this distance creates the 
tensions which give birth to the awareness of the divine.  For the divine 
presence this gap creates the opportunity for God to not be present at the 
other side of the gulf.  While God may be everywhere present, as long as a 
personality does not discern that presence, a gap exists and the divine is 
absent.  So in rush Michael and Mother Spirit to bestow upon you the 
Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit that you may be empowered to discern.
	When you hold in your hand a seed it is able to be held because it has 
size.  As you break down the components of this seed to discern the 
structures integrated therein it is soon noted that much that gives seeds 
size is merely food for a temporary period of time.  What is the germ, the 
truly valuable element, is quite small in relation to the whole.  When the 
seed sprouts soon this life seeks nourishment beyond itself; into the 
ground with its roots, and into the air with its leaves.  This is much 
like what is occurring within you now.  Your body and your mind are seed 
food for the sprouting of your soul and the attainment of the Father.
	You have expressed frustration over the practice of stillness.  I 
attempt today to soothe this frustration by illustrating how difficult of 
discernment this divine presence is; yet this presence is real and here 
within each of you.  Cultivating the art of silence will at times bring 
you direct discernment, profound experience.  Other times it will be much 
like standing at the base of the tower and merely touching it  knowing 
what is at the top and knowing that you are connected by the structure 
intervening.  And this is the meditation of faith.  A partnership with 
expertise and harmony is one wherein the two partners can function in 
relation to one another even without communication, without prodding or 
instruction.  To undertake quiet time is to develop your end of the 
partnership, your ability to function without instruction, even without 
communication.  Yes, do long for a conscious experience of the presence of 
the Father.  However, ever hold in your faith that eventual day in your 
future career when you will be unmistakably eternally fused and ever 
conscious of the presence of God.
	Today you also develop the ability as a child of God to be a spiritual 
creature in your own right as a human.  Love of the divine stimulates 
attraction toward the divine.  So it is with Father.  He loves you and 
therefore indwells you.  Cherish these short years of apparent distance, 
for this is the time wherein you establish your personality presence.  You 
will be assisted by spirit in many ways on many levels.  The indwelling 
presence will not fill out the forms for you, will not attend your classes 
for you, and will not even receive your diploma for you.  This is your 
privilege.
	So, I finish today by saying, do most energetically seek the presence 
of God each moment of your life and likewise cherish an equally important 
presence, your human personality.  It is the plan of the Father that you 
be who you are.  You are assisted by Him; you will not be replaced by Him.  
One day you will be eternally fused with Him.
	I remain in your presence.  I have finished my discourse.  Thank you.

	Mark:  I’ve been thinking about the various forms of spirit assistance 
available to us.  You help us because we have accepted your assistance.  
Are the visitors to our world who are on a more physical plane also a part 
of this process of facilitation?  I feel they aren’t just sightseers or 
planetary observers but may very well be part of the administration of 
which we are a part.  Could you comment please?

*	Elyon:  Yes, I will within the constraints of my mission mandate.  As 
you are released as a planet from the conditions of quarantine among the 
rebellious worlds, many normal functions such as interplanetary 
communication will be reinstated, and even now the work is underway to 
establish these ties.  Because of this world’s isolation and the 
subsequent absence of a truly holistic spiritual teaching, that which is 
physical has been separated from that which is spiritual.  Often the world 
is seen as a place to remove oneself from and the divine as a place to go 
to.  In a normal arrangement of planetary events this is not the case.  
Visitors from other worlds and entities from higher dimensions are as much 
a part of the totality of the planetary experience of any creature.  
Efforts are being made to establish these conditions.  I do not say 
“reestablish”, for the functions of the spirit administration on this 
world fell apart before the initial establishment was set as far as the 
human creatures on the world are concerned.  You have not lost the “good 
old days”; only now is planet Urantia coming into these good days.
	There will be some education required, and you are among many who are 
qualified to present this truth that those from other worlds are not 
hostile, that they will contribute beneficially to the progress of this 
planet, and that you too as citizens of this world will have the same 
beneficial impact upon them.
	The Correcting Time, while very important to the affairs of Urantia, 
spans over each of the quarantined worlds from the rebellion.  Teachers 
like myself are assigned elsewhere and are functioning even today as I do 
now with you.  Due to the constraints of quarantine and the process for 
its lifting, you will only receive contact from those cleared to approach 
this world.  This is due, if I may use the analogy, to the concern for the 
patient in the hospital ward that no other contaminations be presented.  
This is carefully monitored.  On worlds advanced in progressive 
civilization far greater allowance is made for intercommunication and for 
the mistakes that may occur in this cross-planetary cultural experience.  
This is due to the maturity of the civilizations involved.
	I hope I have been helpful.

	Mark:  I’ve been thinking about seeing from our power points and 
knowing how to approach situations from fear or curiosity.  These visitors 
are non-threatening, but I know fear grips many when they think of them.  
If these visitors need ambassadors to help in the fulfillment of Michael’s 
mission, then I am willing to help out.

*	Elyon:  Your offer is noted and your name is on page one of the list 
of volunteers.  It is important that we have those of such dedication and 
sincerity.  Not many upon your world have even developed a true belief in 
a populated universe.  There is faint belief, supposition, and 
imagination, but that conviction of a deep faith still lacks upon this 
world.  It will require those as yourself to promote this.

	Mark:  The list must be short if I am on page one.  I accept that they 
would not be here if it were not part of the divine plan you spoke of.  
Thank you.

	Evelyn:  This is off-topic, but I read in the UB how versatile 
melchizedeks are, the only comparably versatile characters being Life 
Carriers.  What can you tell us about Life Carriers so that we could 
appreciate this versatility? Melchizedeks materializing as humans for 
example we find awe inspiring, stepping in in emergencies, and so on.

*	Elyon:  I am not allowed to embellish on the information given in the 
Urantia Papers.  I can however arrange the presentation for new insights, 
for it was deemed appropriate to restrict the information given to that 
which is presented.  You have been notified that there is a special 
relationship between the melchizedeks and Life Carriers as noted in the 
Papers.  I will address the versatility element.
	Melchizedeks are remarkable beings.  I have only experience within 
this local universe, and I must say that our melchizedeks are fantastic 
beings.  They are in charge of universe education.  That means that they 
teach creatures across a broad spectrum of manifestation.  The 
melchizedeks are in charge of this Teaching Mission, but that is only one 
small branch of their educational program.  They are able not only to 
stand as Machiventa did face to face with someone like Abraham, but they 
also can approach an angel or any other creature in this realm of Nebadon 
and meet them at their level of education opportunity.  That is their 
versatility, their adaptability, their form-changing ability.
	Life Carriers, their versatility is in their ability to manifest life 
forms.  Just as the powers that the melchizedeks have and the nature of 
their being is given by their creator/father Michael, so the powers of the 
Life Carriers are equally given by this creator/father.  The Life Carriers 
are remarkable in their ability to generate variation in life and to 
instill within these variable life forms qualities of adaptability.  
regeneration, and the ability to survive.  In some regards, both the Life 
Carriers and the melchizedeks, if we may use a visual, may be likened in 
this regard: Picture Michael in your mind’s eye.  Circle to the left and 
down with a string of Melchizedeks.  Circle from the right and down the 
Life Carriers; one granted by Michael to generate multitudinous 
manifestations of life forms, the other granted by Michael with the 
ability to educate and uplift any form that is manifested.  These are two 
of the great arms of the Michael project of developing Nebadon into a 
universe of Light and Life.
	I hope this has provided you with something to ponder.

	Evelyn:  What a team!

*	Elyon:  And this is why you have in your papers reference to 
melchizedek Life Carriers.

	Evelyn:  It gives a sense of what a tiny fraction of the tower we are 
aware of.

*	Elyon:  Many beings are expert at many things.  Some beings only do 
one thing well.  Others perform amazing feats with great versatility.  
Your task is simple: to love the Father and to love your fellows.  By 
following this simple injunction there is no limit to the potentials of 
universe assignment and the heights to which you may grow as a creature of 
God.
	I will draw this meeting to a close if that is your desire.  Farewell.
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