[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 12/01/02

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Search for Truth - Mind and Soul
Teachers: Elyon

December 1, 2002

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this is 
Elyon.  Again I come to you as a brother to share, to 
fellowship under Michael’s loving care, to rejoice in 
our discoveries of the Supreme qualities of universe 
life.
	You at this point have some consciousness of the 
extent of the universe, not simply its physical 
breadth, but the depth of personal experience that may 
be acquired while traversing this universe.  Let us 
speak about the search for truth for a while.
	To some seeking truth is an exercise of discerning 
what is true from what is false.  The endeavor is a 
discipline of separating one from the other as you 
would separate curds from whey, juice from pulp, 
discarding what does not conform to the goal of the 
search and retaining that which applies.  This 
undertaking is a method of discernment useful to the 
intellect of the human mind.  Sorting and sifting is a 
function of mind that enjoys categorical 
understanding.  It is a process that you will continue 
to use over the course of many lifetimes ascending 
many worlds.  Each episode of discernment, while 
contributing  to the organization of your mind; and 
each episode, while contributing to additional mind 
capacity, also contributes significantly to soul 
enlargement.  This enlargement of soul is another 
level of truth discernment.  I do not seek to downplay 
the value of truth discernment to the mind, for it is 
quite important in your search for cosmic 
understanding.  I wish, however, to focus upon the 
soul level, for it is a little less tangible to you at 
this time.
	I mention separating curds from whey.  To the 
discerning mind these distinctions are clear based on 
qualities of manifestation of the two products derived 
from the same source, in this case, milk.  When the 
mind clearly discerns these distinctions it quickly 
can apply these distinct products to uses beneficial 
to the mind.  The soul does not discern the truth 
qualities as does the mind.  The mind will contact, 
observe, analyze, verify, accept, and reject truth 
elements.
	The soul -- perhaps at a risk of crude comparison 
-- rather feels, experiences, a living quality at each 
phase of the discernment process.  It will in a sense 
appreciate milk as milk, curds as curds, and whey as 
whey.  It will appreciate the process of separation as 
well as the process of homogenization.  It overviews 
all of the elements.  The mind will discern use and 
nonuse; the soul accepts both usefulness and non-
usefulness as an integrated oneness.  So, the mind 
seeks for truth resulting in meaning.  The soul finds 
truth that results in value.  The greater the ability 
of the mind, the keener it is to sort truth from the 
erroneous.  The greater the development of the soul, 
the larger its encompassment of all things real.  In 
time and space reality must contain the unreal, for 
this is the duality that energies life, that 
stimulates the mind and inspires the soul.
	The mature mind will not fight the assertions of 
error by another but will discern the level of 
understanding and patiently pursue an opportunity for 
the offering of elimination and correction.  A mature 
soul likewise discerns the context wherein an 
erroneous assumption lies.  A soul which has grown for 
a significant period of time perceives the 
appropriateness of an erroneous assumption based upon 
the growth level of the personality pursuing truth.  
While the mind may wish to correct error, the soul 
embraces the one in error knowing through its own 
experience that this other individual will grow and 
shed what was useful for experience that is of greater 
use.  The context will shift.
	Sometimes a personality becomes confused when not 
discerning the difference between mind and soul.  One 
may be perplexed or embarrassed over earlier 
conceptual beliefs that are no longer possessed as 
truthful.  But his soul does not discard these now 
outdated understandings; it incorporates them into the 
field of wisdom, that broadened viewpoint.
	Michael while on this world admonished his 
apostles to speak to the soul and spirit of man, not 
to challenge the beliefs, to confront error -- for 
this is the innate ability of mind to do so -- rather 
to approach in the awareness of the presence of soul, 
to react to another as a father would to his child or 
a mother would to her child, understanding their age 
or maturity or growth, not condescendingly, rather 
supportively.  The wise parent has undergone the same 
growth.
	I come to you as one who has been through training 
worlds, extensive undertakings in the enlargement of 
soul and of the sharpening of personality.  I address 
you as a friend, not as a superior.  As minds I could 
present to you many factors that would place you as 
far lesser than me, but as a soul I embrace you as 
one, a brother and a sister.  Your level of spiritual 
unfoldment is as important today as any other 
developmental level prior to or subsequent to this 
hour.  There is no better position to be in than your 
present state of soul unfoldment.
	Discernment of truth to the mind is the taking 
things apart for understanding.  Discernment of truth 
to the soul is the ability to interconnect, to 
synthesize and enlarge the context.  Both are 
extremely valuable in your ascension.  Each one 
provides the Indwelling Spirit the opportunity to 
reveal new truth.  To use another example, for you to 
make bread you often take whole ingredients, break 
them down to smaller forms, extract what you want, 
discard the rest, reassemble it.  This is the function 
of mind.  The soul sees and experiences bread from the 
gathering of the wheat to the slicing of the loaf.
	Even the enemies of Jesus loved him because he 
approached his relationships applying his soul 
experience as well as his mental discernment.  All of 
you who have read of his trial before his execution   
have felt angst over the unfoldment of events, perhaps 
wished that Jesus could have out-argued his accusers 
and proved his point.  And this he could have done 
expertly with his mind.  No.  Instead he stood before 
his fellows loving them, recognizing the Father’s 
indwelling presence in each of them, grasping fully 
their current levels of spiritual growth.  It did not 
matter to him to demonstrate his superiority in 
spiritual unfoldment.  It mattered to him that his 
children who were his accusers had an opportunity to 
receive divine benevolence, acceptance, and love.  
This is the manifestation of a mature soul and one who 
does not fight for truth but lives as truth.
	I wish now to receive your input.

	Kirk:  The beginnings of Light and Life would be 
for more individuals on the planet to accept all 
individuals for where they are and what they are 
doing.  The wrongs and pathways against going back to 
the Father would fall away because you are accepting 
them for who they are, not for what they are doing.  
Help me with some words here.

*	Elyon:  You are perceiving correctly.  Let’s take 
an example of a young child.  The child needs shoes.  
Today, given the state of affairs on your world, the 
confusion involved, one would mistakenly say, “This 
adult-sized shoe is the shoe you must wear when you 
are like me, a mature adult.  You must therefore begin 
wearing them now.”  Quickly you discern that this is 
not the truth.  This child must be fitted with a 
sequence of sizes until it has grown to the point 
where it can wear that adult shoe.  In the stages 
prior to Light and Life you go to war over which shoe 
is the appropriate shoe to wear.  In Light and Life, 
as you have said, you discern the infant, the toddler, 
the child, the adolescent, and the adult and accept 
the appropriateness of each level.  This is easy to 
see in this example.  Applying it to your politics, 
your social structures, your industry and economies, 
your religions, is far more difficult to do.
	It has been revealed to you that Light and Life 
entails one language, one religion.  It is not that 
you are standardized to one tongue, one orthodoxy.  
You are one in your acceptance of your differences, 
one in your understanding of your origins, united in 
the commonality of the divine overcare, your source 
and origin.  You may speak with differing sounds, but 
you communicate.  And this is the one language you 
must reach for there to be Light and Life.

	Harold:  When you were speaking about the 
difference between mind and soul I imagined workers 
building, working on a scaffolding.  Each worker was 
like mind on its particular level of the scaffolding, 
whereas soul is more like the production manager who 
can see what previous scaffolding you have been on, 
also what scaffolding you will progress to as you 
build higher.  Also he has access to the blueprints of 
what the final building will look like.  Is that 
somewhat accurate?

*	Elyon:  Well said, my friend, for this production 
manager even sees the roof of the building before it 
exists.  The mind in the discernment of truth may not 
find a tangible, discernible quality and therefore 
dismiss it as untrue.  The soul, however, as you have 
exemplified, tends to look to the end as well as 
throughout the process and can verify truth yet un-
manifest.  I applaud you for your example.

	Harold:   There’s a danger in accepting everyone 
for where they are in that there would be no challenge 
to help them progress.  If someone is seen doing 
something wrong or that doesn’t make sense even in 
their own definition, isn’t it our responsibility 
either by example or otherwise to explain that they 
need to change what they are doing?

*	Elyon:  Yes, this is quite true.  This is why the 
universe is designed as an educational system, each 
one teaching to the level from which they have just 
emerged.  Because of this process those in need of 
correction, realignment, or adjustment to higher 
levels are better receptive to one so near in 
experience.  The one so near in experience offering a 
revelation of a higher way is more understanding of 
that particular orientation that is being corrected.
	Much that drives the mortal creature that is so 
important and all consuming in your life today I have 
long lost sensitivity to, for it has been far too long 
since I have been in mortal form.  So, your fellows 
are far more capable of uplifting you to the next 
level than I can be.
	I am glad that you pointed out that acceptance 
does not imply complacency or condoning of behavior 
that is disruptive to spiritual harmony.  With this 
understanding and the application of compassion you 
then become led to minister rather than condemn, to 
display an alternate and perhaps progressing position 
for another.  To turn this around, each one of you is 
likewise at a stage of error, and someone will come 
your way to offer advancement.  Discern with your soul 
the acceptance of the Father of where you are now, the 
grace of His offering through a fellow of that which 
you can attain immediately.
	In a world that is structured with penalty for 
wrong action, it breeds in a sense of guilt, a 
protection from punishment, a shrinking from facing 
reality.  As your lives unfold over the mansion worlds 
you will discover that there is great delight by the 
morontia personalities each time one finds something 
to correct in themselves.  It is joyful to discover 
these elements to fix, to discover that which is 
lacking and provide the substance required to become a 
mature morontia being.  There is no judgment.
	While you understand from your Urantia Papers that 
there is a vast structure and order of beings, we do 
not pass greater worth and lesser worth upon any one 
of them.  This is the acceptance I speak of.  However, 
each order of being is always willing to express the 
divine qualities they manifest to others, knowing that 
uplifting another is part of the universe-wide process 
that is coming to them, too.

	Kirk:  Do the angels or other celestials put 
others in our pathway who are either going to help us 
or who we can help with their problem to evolve?

*	Elyon:  They take great delight in this 
undertaking and will do what they can, acknowledging 
the sanctity of freewill sovereignty.  Not to devalue 
their work, it is a thrilling game for them.  
Important as it is each of these humans you speak of 
bringing you lessons or you to them, is of vital 
importance to the growth of souls.  This is of great 
value in the efforts of the angels.  If you could see 
the joy the angels have as they make their efforts to 
bring about these opportunities, you would see a group 
of beings who are having a wonderful time.  Just as 
you may undertake a game on earth such as your game of 
tennis and take delight in a score and likewise laugh 
at a misplaced ball, these angels do enjoy even the 
failures, for every undertaking improves their skills 
and reveals to them the nature of mankind.

	Kirk:  We could improve the whole process if we 
had faith in the angels, faith in the process, faith 
in whatever is happening in our lives; that we are 
being helped.

*	Elyon:  Yes, and particularly when you feel 
resistance to stop yourself and say, “This is an 
opportunity brought my way perhaps by the angels 
themselves that I best listen and discern.”  While you 
might not recognize it, you may trust the angels will 
try again.

	Kirk:  Sometimes the human way is to fear that the 
angels will try again!

*	Elyon: Yes, along with the feeling that if you did 
not discover it the first time you have been thrown 
off the team.

	Harold:  There’s personal revelation tailored to 
the individual, and there’s group revelation such as 
The Urantia Papers which is for the individual and for 
the entire group.  Is there an organization overseeing 
group revelation?  If so, have there been other 
revelations that might be pointed out as helpful for 
our growth?

*	Elyon:  There are numerous collectives of 
celestial beings who undertake revelation processes.  
It has been portrayed in The Urantia Papers those of 
epochal consequence, significance.  Yet these are the 
revelations intended for global impact.  But 
revelation does occur with smaller focal points to 
benefit a region or a population for their 
intermediate upliftment, regardless of the 
understanding and illumination of peoples elsewhere.  
These do diminish in size down to smaller and smaller 
groups.  However these encounter increased danger of a 
fanatical reaction, because the base of receptivity, 
the narrower it becomes, has less ability to balance 
itself, to have that corrective counter balance among 
its members.
	Those revelations projected on  an epochal level 
unfold with adaptations from the input of many 
individuals, human and celestial, as you have 
witnessed with the unfolding of Christianity 
subsequent to Michael’s bestowal.  While these may 
alter the initial presentation, it adapts itself to 
mankind.  A small group likewise adapts revelation.  
If one personality ... that individual runs the risk 
of being the adaptor for the others ... and herein 
enters the danger of a cult,  of a charismatic leader 
who will make the mistake of wavering, wandering away 
from the initial input into human agendas.
	When a revelation is intended of global 
significance, much research is done on a world to 
discern the best timing and location for it to unfold.  
These revelation of such scope have specific agendas 
or curricula to present.  Modifications are made to 
adapt to the world, but the world does not dictate 
what it will teach, only how it will be taught.  There 
are great commissions involved on each world assessing 
the timing and location of these undertakings.
	When it comes to personal revelation there is only 
one single great entity involved, and that is the 
Divine Presence dwelling within you.  It needs no 
counsel; it needs no committee, for the Presence of 
God knows fully what the individual needs to have 
bestowed upon them for greater insight and for 
spiritual unfoldment.
	Since these revelatory commissions are not of the 
caliber of God they must undertake studies, do tests, 
and run trials in order to discern the when and the 
where of a revelation.  There have been times when 
these trials have failed or needed to be halted, for 
they were unfolding in a detrimental manner.  These 
commissions will wait, will undertake these smaller 
group revelations you speak of, to greater prepare the 
world for the larger presentation.

	Harold:  I wonder if the LDS represented one of 
those preparatory steps or trials of revelation.

*	Elyon:  Yes.

	Harold:  There was some revelation somewhere in 
the core that got lost or superseded by others.

*	Elyon:  It was one element in the testing phase 
for an epochal revelation.  It is among numerous 
similar endeavors of that time and before.  Each one 
of these tests, while benefiting from the reception of 
celestial input, was not necessarily intended to be 
the point of epochal presentation.  They were what you 
might call dry runs.  But any dry run is compensated 
with truth and light.  You are never taken advantage 
of; always will you be given some reward for being 
part of the process of bringing a greater revelation 
of God to the world.

	Harold:  Always the personal presentation is 
involved, right?

*	Elyon:  Yes.  Personal revelation never ends.  The 
periodicity of such revelation is up to the discerning 
ear of the human personality.  However, when this 
interworking interfaces with an epochal undertaking 
therein enters uncertainty as to reaction by that 
individual in relation to the broader project.

	Harold:  Could you explain that a little more?

*	Elyon:  Let us return to the example of a child 
needing shoes.  As revelators attempt to locate time 
and place for revelation, they must test to see if a 
receptive individual or individuals are capable of 
processing, managing, a revelation.  Personal 
revelation is the efforts of the Divine Indweller to 
help you grow out of your current pair of shoes to get 
you ready to put on a larger size.  Epochal revelation 
attempts to provide a rack of shoe sizes so that many 
people may fit.  So, one receiving such contact may 
mistake the variability of shoe sizes for their own 
particular size, confuse the two, and disrupt the 
process.  A religion may begin that says all size five 
shoes are the right shoes.  This is where a personal 
revelation can interrupt or halt an epochal 
undertaking.
	You know from our studies that several sites were 
selected for the Garden of Eden, and several families 
were chosen to be the family wherein Jesus would be 
raised.  These unselected options were not condemned.
	Do you wish more clarification?

	Harold:  I think you hit it.

	Tom:  When I read that truth itself is a 
revelation it brings to mind both personal and epochal 
revelation.  Truth is like jewels, treasures, spread 
everywhere.  A person’s willingness is required to 
follow that truth and something to maintain your 
equilibrium in pursuit of that like stillness. That 
would apply to personal truth or even to The Urantia 
Book as an epochal revelation.  You still must open it 
and embrace it.  Is that what we are talking about?

*	Elyon:  Yes, you have encapsulated my lesson of 
today.  Well done.  One may look at milk and see milk, 
to look at curds and see curds, and likewise for whey, 
but one also sees the others while observing the one.  
This all-embracing quality is that string of truth you 
speak of.  It is the experiencing of this 
interrelatedness that is also truth, the living 
undertaking.  Revelation in an outward form is truly 
only a presentation.  It becomes revelation when it 
awakens the soul.  That will happen all over over the 
course of time  in many individuals.  Therefore is the 
term applied “epochal”, not that it happened once to 
mark an epoch, but that it is presented once and 
continually is being revealed throughout an epoch.

	Harold:  Thank you, Elyon.  That was very 
enlightening.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome.  I will withdraw.  
However, I wish to make one last comment.
	You have spoken of stillness, and while I was 
present during your discussions, you discussed 
baptism.  I would like to emphasize that stillness is 
a baptism.  Submerging yourself in the presence of 
God, bringing about a marked point of transformation 
between an earlier moment to a moment that follows, to 
become infused with spirit, to let the water of life 
pour upon you, this exercise allows you to begin anew, 
to rededicate, to gather strength to try again.
	Take care.
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