[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 12/15/02

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Virtues Fostering Growth, Aaron Visits, 
Kindgdoms of Men
Teachers: Elyon, Aaron, Sharmon

December 15, 2002

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings  to you, this is 
Elyon.  It brings me joy to witness your discussion of 
our last meeting, and as your nursery poem goes, while 
the young girl sat and ate her curds and whey the 
spider comes beside her, and this is what he had to 
say.
	Today I wish to follow the lesson by adding the 
virtues of patience, tolerance, temperance, and 
forbearance, for these are immensely valuable in 
fostering growth and in discerning truth.  When you 
prepare your food item yogurt, you first heat the 
milk, and you must not underheat it or boil it for it 
to be successful.  Likewise is this your approach to 
uncovering what remains mysterious, that which you do 
not know and seek illumination.  Combing through 
Jonathan’s earthly experiences I extract two 
illustrations of the value of temperance and patience.  
When you wish to extract a stubborn screw, it does not 
serve well to spin your screwdriver so rapidly that 
you strip the head.  Steady forceful but slow, intent 
pressure and twisting will cause it to break free, and 
then you can increase velocity.  Also driving a nail, 
delicate taps would take far too long and through some 
materials not accomplish a thing.  But with 
forcefulness you can drive it; too much force you bend 
it over.  While the force progressed the action, when 
you reach near the end you pause, pick up a nailset, 
and gently tap it home.  These mundane functions and 
processes also apply to your spiritual pursuits and 
your accumulation of wisdom and grasp of truth.
	I observe your discussions of health and healing, 
the spiritual as well as material methods.  It is in 
your discussion that you demonstrate your intention to 
acquire the best method, the proper perspective, for 
reaching your goal.  Skill does not develop merely by 
undergoing an action once, but rather undergoing that 
action repeatedly and, still more significantly, 
undergoing that action and taking note of, 
remembering, and applying our observations from each 
action.  One who has skill has patience.  Patience is 
not the result of the attainment of skill; it is the 
contributor to the attainment of skill.  One who does 
something well acquired traits and techniques before 
mastery which allowed mastery.
	Jesus would minister to a hungry soul what they 
needed, no more and no less.  While this is a skill 
worthy of acquirement by everyone, there is a 
significant contributing factor to aid you.  Not only 
are you able to better treat your fellows in times of 
trouble or ailment by including in your actions 
patience, forbearance, and appropriate timing, there 
is the additional vitality of living spirit.  Jesus, 
knowing of this presence, could rest confidently that 
the extent to which he approached and ministered to 
another’s need was all that needed to occur, for that 
vital spirit presence that continually monitors each 
one of you and each one of his followers applies 
further ministry, further healing.
	Human beings will weigh the merit of their tasks, 
of their intentions, based upon the finished result.  
Something is not accomplished until all points of the 
process have been undertaken.  But you who are 
demanding of yourselves greater spirit attunement are 
realizing that you are one of the many steps in a 
process to a desired result, that the service you 
provide another may seem to be a simple, mundane human 
action of kindness to another.  However, from the 
perspective of your angelic attendants, they view the 
intricacies of the interworkings of many events in 
individuals’ lives that compound to create what may 
take years to come to fruition: the realization of a 
significant spiritual truth or alignment.
	So, to return to culinary examples, as you mature, 
as you progress down your path of growth, you know to 
keep your oven shut when things are baking, to not 
poke at the rising dough when it needs to rest, that 
these apparent inactions are as contributory to the 
desired end as aggressive actions.

*	Aaron:  Greetings to you, this is Aaron.  I step 
in here with Elyon to acknowledge you all, to relish 
all the times we have spent together, to assure you of 
my continued interest in this group.  It is enjoyable 
reminiscing over the many years we have spent together 
in this undertaking.  You are able to assess the 
benefits that have come to you through this faith 
adventure, and you have also experienced episodes 
wherein you have been able to bestow upon another the 
necessary ingredient in their struggles such that they 
may be a little better relieved or a little better 
prepared to face their struggles.  I wish that I could 
print out a report for you of what the melchizedeks 
have to say, for they are able to grasp within a 
universe context the significance of your 
advancements.  Though ten years have transpired since 
our initial contacts, and it may seem that you have 
made adjustments and realizations, you have undertaken 
service projects, outreach ministries, and that they 
may not amount to much on a page of credentials, if 
you could but see the applications not only for the 
remainder of your lives here but the adventures and 
enterprises you will engage in in the mansion world 
experiences, you would then realize what great wealth 
you have acquired.  As Elyon said, even this faith 
grasp must be coupled with your ability to wait out 
the time that transpires before your talents are in 
need.
	Years ago I mentioned to you that a good gardener 
does not pull up a seedling to see how well it’s 
growing.  So, while you may not be able to view the 
extent of the reach of your roots into spiritual 
matter, the melchizedeks are fully aware, and they are 
able to assess nutrients you may need.  They then 
notify us, and we apply ourselves to giving you those 
nutrients.  I am capable of making some assessments 
myself.  But like you I am an ascending mortal 
creature, and like you I do not hale from the 
headquarters of Nebadon.  I am heading toward 
Salvington as you are.  We who come from the 
periphery, while we gain a perspective through the 
accumulation of experience, have not the same 
viewpoint as one who is born a master teacher as are 
the melchizedeks.  Therefore we rely heavily upon 
their counsel and advice and direction.

*	Sharmon:  This is Sharmon.  I also am in 
attendance today and give you a hearty hello.
	We of the midwayers are sensitive to your worries 
regarding the affairs in the kingdoms of men.  know 
(note?) to your concerns and ours equally disturbed by 
the unrest, by the confrontations, and by the attempts 
to escalate confrontations, conflict.  Mankind and we 
midwayers share a tendency that we may not necessarily 
brag about, and that is to be a bit overzealous for 
cause, to become so motivated to the degree that we 
will decrease the breadth of our vision.  The 
midwayers present during the fall of the planetary 
headquarters succumbed to this tendency, and your 
history is peppered with such engagements wherein one 
is viewed as enemy or foe, not necessarily because you 
are in conflict in ideology, but because your zeal has 
narrowed your vision.  So if there were any advice I 
could send to all mankind today it would be to assess 
the breadth of your viewpoint, to grasp more fully and 
holistically the intricacies and your relationships.
	Where the midwayers of centuries back followed the 
strong dictates of powerful personalities and also 
fell into rebellion, I ask you this day to assess with 
the Spirit of Truth bestowed upon you the merit of 
declarations that are broadcast about your world and 
to yourselves likewise take your stance through 
stillness and contemplation, through application of 
your experiences, and let be known your feelings.
	Today we midwayers are a united bunch because a 
few within our midst were vocal enough to point out 
the errors and to do so with kindness and compassion 
to win the souls of the others back to a path of light 
and truth.  It was not done overnight.  It was not 
done easily, and it was not done without numerous 
arguments.  We cherish this planet.  It is ours.  We 
extend great hope for mankind to wisely choose its 
future.  We overlay that hope with a profound trust in 
the universe administrators who manage so many worlds, 
varied in their advancements, each one with its own 
difficulties and successes.  With this wide range of 
engagements we know that they are capable of helping 
Urantia realize the significant values that will cause 
advancement toward Light and Life.
	Aaron says I should open this up to questions, so 
I will.  You may address whoever you seek to receive a 
response from.

	Tom:  Several years back you theorized that our 
present form of government stood in some jeopardy.  
Has there been any correction to your perception of 
that?  Is it still in a potential slide?

*	Sharmon:  I still stand by my comments, but I 
would add that I do not apply that view cynically.  I 
perceive it as one who would note a blemish on  a 
mirror and would seek to clean the blemish to restore 
the reflectivity.  That causes me to repeat my earlier 
comment that you think for yourselves and make your 
thoughts be known, for we are not going to step in and 
demand alterations to the processes of your governing 
bodies to correct, to restore.  It is up to you.

	Tom:  Thank you, that’s encouraging.

	Harold:  With your experience of planetary 
government you would have a clear perception of the 
swing of the pendulum.  Has materialism reached its 
zenith and is about to turn the other direction?  If 
so, is it more critical for us to be applying direct 
pressure to the screw or more of a hammer blow?

*	Sharmon:  Your world, which is our world, is 
approaching the zenith of materialism.  It has not 
reached the summit at this point.  Although I have 
never left this world and only receive reports of how 
other worlds progress, I am of the understanding that 
there is a great deal more in the capabilities of 
mankind for the development of material things in the 
advancement of your technologies.  Let me clarify that 
by stating that materialism is a value system; it is 
not simply the advancement of technologies and the 
development of material objects for your use.  So 
enters my hope for the culmination of this era because 
I witness throughout the world a shifting in values.  
Though you may not have advanced technologically to 
the apex of what is potential, you are beginning to 
reevaluate the philosophical foundation of these 
pursuits.  With this adjustment you will refine the 
appropriateness of these material advancements.  
Materialism philosophically will begin to change  
before the external manifestations reach the fruition 
of their beneficial contributions to mankind alongside 
the detriments of the overmuch development of things 
of transient value at the expense of the resource 
wealth of future generations.
	You speak in your history of the Dark Ages.  They 
weren’t all that dark.  The sun rose and set with the 
same brilliance as this day.  The darkness had more to 
do with the shifting of general consciousness away 
from advancement.  It did not so much retreat into the 
ages past but simply sat idle.  Today, while there is 
much that is the cause of strife and terror on you 
world, there is not the darkness of idleness.  All 
over societies are astir evaluating and considering 
global actions being undertaken economically, 
industrially, politically, and environmentally.  This 
is that light that precedes the change from a 
materialistic bent to a spiritual lifestyle or 
orientation.
	There are religions upon this world who value the 
removal of material possessions in order to better 
detect the lasting worth of spirit values.  This is a 
worthy undertaking and an initial stage of spiritual 
growth, for you cannot hear the birds sing if you are 
always talking.  To quiet down, to simplify, increases 
the sensitivity of the awareness of the song all about 
you.  However, Light and Life includes a certain 
degree of prosperity on a material level, not a 
prosperity of riches and wealth, but one of 
technologies that aid mankind in many fields, that 
frees the human being to better acquire those 
spiritual character traits.  The shift is beginning.  
The effects of a materialistic mindset are exposing 
themselves such that you are better able to evaluate 
the merit of the orientation.  As the orientation 
shifts the material progress will follow appropriate 
paths.
	(I am) unable to predict the course of mankind.  
It is possible that your entire world structure may be 
disrupted if you don’t make the progress necessary to 
infuse spiritual orientation into your material 
matters.  This will not be done by celestial agencies.  
It will be the result of the folly of mankind.  But 
the administrations in place upon this world will do 
everything possible to illuminate the spiritual 
significance of any dark times and to bring to the 
surface those individuals who are pivotal in 
presenting the long view of the future and potential 
of Urantia.  While such an event may never occur, for 
I do hold great hope that mankind is progressing well, 
it may fall to some of you even in this room to step 
forward to be noticed and to call others to take note 
of what is worthy and valuable for the future progress 
of the planet.

	Kirk:  You must be aware of the technologies 
available on the planet today that are secret from the 
public.  We have technologies that could save the 
planet for the benefit of everyone.  Is that the 
balance you are trying to say here?  Will those secret 
technologies come out, or will they stay hidden to 
benefit the few?  I hear you say not to get on the 
bandwagon because it may hurt others’ progress.  Then 
I hear you say if you get on, then enlighten people of 
what we have on the planet today.  Could you clarify 
that?

*	Sharmon:  Yes, I will.  You said it well, but I 
will add to your perspective.  The context you speak 
of is the context of value, that a technology is 
neither right nor wrong, simply a process of physical 
functions.  It is the application and more importantly 
the choosing of application that brings the right or 
the wrong to the technology.  You know that a forest 
fire is a frightening experience, for it is a power 
beyond one single individual’s ability to control and 
requires the rallying of many people to counter-force 
a fire’s energy.  Yet long ago you discovered how to 
harness fire to make it useful to a tribe.  Today you 
have altered that fire you harnessed into numerous 
energy applications.  These have radically transformed 
the activities of humankind.  I encourage you to 
acclaim the worth of beneficial technologies, and I 
would not discourage you from standing up against the 
evil applications of technologies.  But I would ask 
you to transcend both undertakings by educating all 
you have a chance to with the perspective of planetary 
advancement, of the pattern of progress that overlays 
each critical juncture in the unfoldment of the 
development of your technologies, for this is what the 
world lacks today, that overview.
	Today the human races speak of progress in terms 
of accumulation of wealth and of objects, of the 
discovery of things.  These are merely parts of the 
progress that makes up the whole of what is to be 
Light and Life.  By bandstanding the overview you 
create a context for many others to make choices 
regarding the merit of the technology, whether it 
ought to be or not, or how it’s to be applied and how 
it ought not to be.

	Harold:  You’re saying to get on the bandwagon but 
be choosy which wagon you get on?

*	Sharmon:  Yes.  I speak as a united midwayer, for 
this was our decision to get on the bandwagon for 
Michael, to stand up against the Lucifer Rebellion.  
The undertaking of Lucifer and Caligastia was 
attractive  in the early stages of the campaign, for 
it signaled advancement; it gratified many with the 
tangible results immediately.  Yet throughout the 
process we were unable to discern the damages being 
wrought upon the structure that was ordained by 
Michael.  When it became apparent to a few that 
mistakes were being made, it required those few to 
stand up and be heard.  It was this bold action that 
began the turn around for the corps of midwayers.  It 
signaled to the higher universe intelligences that 
Urantia indeed was going to survive this campaign of 
Lucifer.
	I will draw close to this meeting today for Elyon 
and Aaron.  As I look about me I see the presence of 
many wonderful personal teachers who enjoy ministering 
to you.  By closing I would say that the patience that 
Elyon speaks of, temperance, forbearance, does not 
equate to complacency.  You must always be keenly 
aware of the significance of each event that crosses 
your life and the greater events that cross the path 
of mankind, to discern, to choose and to act in light 
of the greatest truth you can grasp and the goodness 
you can manifest.  Do so with confidence trusting that 
the Divine Spirit bestowed upon you will always adjust 
your intentions to refine them.  Even if you discerned 
wrongly you have given the potential for the 
adjustment to occur and for you to change course.  If 
you have chosen rightly you have the forces of the 
universe behind you to empower your efforts, to 
sustain you in conflict, to assure you.
	Until another time, good bye.
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