[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho Teacher Group 02/11/01

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho teacher Group
Topics: Initiative, Play, Questions: Magisterial Mission,Forgiveness, "With
You Always and Two or Three are Gathered"
Teachers: Elyon

February 11, 2001

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings.  This is your homeroom teacher of the
melchizedek schools, Elyon.  I am always happy to be with you and to engage with
you in the pursuit of greater understanding and upliftment in spirit and to
better apply growth that occurs within to your daily life.
	Among friends there is support, the joy of discovering that one's struggles
are shared and that the individual's difficulties have been likewise encountered
by another, and there is strength in commingling insights and relief in sharing
burdens.  Having spent these years engaged with you, I have seen increased
initiative in each of you.  Your abilities to further apply your enlightenment
and awareness to your life situation are the blasting cap to the dynamite of
Adjuster guidance.  You strike the match and the fuel explodes.  The desire to
grow spiritually is often motivated by the desire for peace and
tranquillity, for
joy and happiness, for comfort, for answers; but there is a maturation in this
desire over time where the aspirant desires to acquire greater insight, broader
love, that the individual may better apply these answers, these attainments, in
the ministry of another.  To be satisfied in oneself over one's condition, one's
position in the universe, is good and worthy of attainment, but I address
you who
this day know that beyond this level of satisfaction is the greater thrill of
being of worth to one's fellows in times of trouble, in times of need.  This is
where the pleasure of spiritual attainment takes on a dimension of rigor, for
there is no greater test to the truths of personal attainment than to apply and
to repeated apply these truths to the difficulties that you encounter.  The true
test of faith is the ability to wrestle with these troubles, to find
solution, to
amend your awareness when solution is not attainable, to develop your
comprehension of truth in order to better overlay this greater understanding
onto
the problem at hand.  I have, to repeat myself, noted your increased enthusiasm
toward intensifying the application of your spiritual attainments to your
physical lives.
	It is a joy to behold your levity.  There is a balance to be found in rest,
in humor, in relaxation.  When one is young, at the early stages of a developing
skill, there can be a danger of overmuch seriousness, an overmuch application,
and a feeling of, if not engaged one is slipping, losing touch or time.  But as
circles are attained it is soon discovered that stepping aside from one's
discipline is refreshing.  This invigorates one toward even more profound
advancement and readies one for even more difficult accomplishments.  Always
will
reversion be complementary to higher attainment.  Never as you ascend the
universe will you encounter an individual who would admonish you to not take
time
to play.  While housed in your physical bodies you have noticed that every
episode of physical exertion exhausts, but that the interval of rest readies one
for a repeated exertion experience, and you discover more strength, not
weakness,
through the period of rest.  Spiritual endurance is acquired in like manner,
through oscillations of application and retirement.  Soon, given the
transference
of your seat of identity to the morontia form, you will discover that all of the
lifestyle habits of the new realm are geared around this oscillation.  Currently
in your first life you have physical constraints that require these cycles as is
found in your sleeping, as is found in your need to nourish yourself following
great activity.  But as society has grown more complex, the mind becomes more
obsessed with increased activity, the "going after it" motivation that is
fostered socially even when the individual wishes for a slower pace.  This will
not be encountered in the new life.  All things are designed around the need to
rest and apply in periodic manner.
	Here is the importance of the ability to take initiative, for initiation is
applicable to the start of rest cycle and also for its closure and the
reapplication of oneself to the vigorous tasks.  This is your trait and is
relied
on by the Father's Presence that He may be able to guide you.  Though the spirit
does lead, you must choose. The spirit does not lead as one who tugs at a leash
pulling you in a direction but rather stands as if behind you whispering, "Look
this way.  Look that way.  Choose where to go and I will show you how to grow."
	I am willing at this time to engage with you in dialogue.

	Harold:  We were discussing forgiveness.  Could you comment on how it
affects the person forgiving and the person being forgiven?
*	Elyon:  First I would emphasize the combined quality of forgiveness that
you have composed in your question, and that is the twofold nature, the one
being
forgiven and the one forgiving.  Forgiveness is not an object that passes
through
the possession of one to possession by another.  It is the dynamic of
interrelationship just as is love.  One may feel forgiven; one may feel that
they
have forgiven, but the real quality of forgiveness is in the engagement, in the
relationship, of each one with the other.  It may be difficult and it may be
easy
to intellectually forgive an occurrence, to perceive the relationship of what is
wrong to what is right.  That can happen like the flip of a switch.  But real
spiritual forgiveness is the continual sensibility or feeling that never quits. 
It is an energy that transfers back and forth between the individuals.  This
experience is living.  It enhances trust.  It encourages faith.  Once one
initiates forgiveness, one continually forgives.  It is circuit-like in nature
and does its healing through movement, through current, not potential, but in
actual dynamics.  Both individuals are elevated through the sense of the
life-giving qualities of this energy, this transfer and exchange, or more
appropriately, relationship.  Through this experience is discovered that the
article of offense, the action, the behavior, was an episode in time that has
passed but that the individuals involved continue relationship, continue to
foster the values of brotherhood, of respect, of love, of care and compassion. 
There will be repeatedly offense and forgiveness applied to a particular
offense,
but it is the dynamic of the exchange of forgiveness that will elevate the
one in
need and likewise uplift the one who gives.
	Has this been helpful?
	Harold:  Yes, thank you.
*	Elyon:  This experience and your understanding of this dynamic are very
much equal to the experience of love wherein the more you love the easier it is
to love and to love continually, constantly.  Michael so loved the world because
he always was in a mode of forgiving.  Though he stood among those who could be
labeled "the lowly" of mankind or even of evil intention, he was a fountain
issuing love and forgiveness even before there was an act requiring such a
response.
  
	Harold:  This question that came up in our study group: what is the
difference between, "I am with you always" and, " Where two or three are
gathered, there I am in the midst."  Is there a difference?
*	Elyon:  Yes.  I would repeat an analogy I gave once before of the cotton
ball.  To be with you always is to be integrated in the very fibers that are
you. 
To be in your midst is like dyeing the cotton another color.  But this
applies to
the single individual.  When in company, you experience the coloration of
Michael
in fraternity.
	To be alone in worship is to singly experience the presence of our
Sovereign Son and his reflection of our Paradise Father.  But when you each are
gathered, when you are assembled, you witness the presence of Michael in
exchange.  This is no different than the dynamic I have spoken of regarding
forgiveness and love.  To illustrate another way, every atom has within it
space,
and between every atom is space.   But the space between atoms, though exactly
like the space within an atom, these two spaces define different territories, a
space contained and a space shared.  Michael is with you always in the space
contained.  Where two or three are gathered he is among you in the space shared.
	Does this provide insight?
	Harold:  Yes, very good analogy.  Thank you.

	Tom:  In discussing some of the world turmoil and genocide going on, it was
brought up that there are also positive things going on, often unnoticed by the
media.  Since a Magisterial Son is on his way, when will he arrive to save
us?  I
was hit with a number of insights.  First, when primitive man first made a will
decision, the Life Carriers left.  Attendant upon that decision was an Adjuster
indwelt with the same constraints of hands off, free will.  I wonder if the
celestials have control over these issues.
	In a transcript it was asked if the celestials have anything to do with
sickness, and I believe the response was that you do not initiate but you allow
it with respect to our free will.  When the master was one of us he did not tip
the scales.  He said, "If I could help you see the fullest truth without
removing
from you the essential journey of experience, I would do so.  But that very
experience is what will bring you along the path of the unfoldment of your own
personality's pattern growing so as it stretches toward the Father who gave it
birth."  Again recognizing our free will.
	Malvantra mentioned that when mortals are anticipating something great they
have a tendency to wait, like the Michael Jordan syndrome; when he's in action
even his own teammates stand and watch.  Are we waiting for him, or is he
waiting
for us, to appear?  The purpose of this Teaching Mission is to make us a living
chain letter, that we initiate this new era.  Is that in the ballpark?
*	Elyon:  Splendid discourse, my friend.  You have put your thumb on it.
	The Magisterial arrival does take note of the progress of the world upon
which the mission will take place, its status, its need, as well as its
accomplishments.  You and others like you are demonstrating accomplishments
which
signal to the administrators a readiness for assistance, that is your expression
of free will.  You speak of the atrocities around the world.  These also signal
to the administrators the need for a mission outreach.  A Magisterial Son visits
a world for the benefit of the world.  A bestowal mission like Michael's is
designed for the benefit of the Michael Son and has the secondary impact
upon the
world, not unlike a Magisterial outreach.  Michael came to this world not so
much
because the world was willing, waiting for a messiah, but because his
sovereignty
development had reached the point where the mortal incarnation was necessary. 
But I must also emphasize that, while your freewill may desire, may petition, a
son's arrival, this prayer, while noted, may appear unanswered as other
conditions around the sphere take time to develop wherein the mission will be
effective.  I am speaking of a visual visitation where interaction with
humankind
takes place.  So, along with your willingness there must also be a readiness. 
This readiness is not necessarily preparedness; it may be neediness.
	I advise the continual development of your cosmic citizenship awareness,
for every Son who has come to this world has required a staff, a group of
disciples, coworkers, be they human, midwayer, ascendant mortal, or angel.  You
can be of assistance.
	I also advise that every generation has looked for a celestial visitor to
bring upliftment.  They have arrived, but not on the schedule of the human heart
but in light of a grander, more global, condition.  You may hope  and pray for
the day, and the Father notes your desire, but there are billions of free will
upon your world and even more so that are not visible to the human eye.  There
illustrates the complexity involved in determining the appropriate time of
bestowal.  Fortunately, as I have learned, there are experts in the local
universe who can decipher throughout this complexity the appropriate moment.
But
you are part of the network, and it is important that each be about the Father's
business.
	The time that John spent on the banks of the river, though his teaching was
not that of the master, fertilized the soil in the hearts of the people of the
time for the reception of Michael's message.  Without granting undue
titleship, I
assert that you each have a forerunner role not unlike John.  You have been
given
a text to clarify the context of such a mission.  Much of the information
contained therein is for your understanding should or when such a visitation
occurs.  The spiritual nature of the revelation can be freely shared with any
individual in your life.  But the administrative factors will fall on deaf ears
unless one is willing to step into the position of being a coworker for the
upliftment of this planet.
	Has this adequately addressed your question?
	Tom:  It certainly has thrown some light on it.  Thank you.

*	Elyon:  I will now let you go your ways.  I express my love once again.  I
share with you in the fellowship of Michael.
	We are all blessed with the endowment of divinity.  Remind yourself of this
precious gift that resides within you, especially during times when you may feel
unworthy.  Remember that reversion is not backsliding; it is rest.  When you are
put to task, you are equipped with the powers from Paradise.
	Until next time, be you well.