[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 09/02/07

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: The Trophy of Spiritual Experience and the 
Pedestal of Support.
Teachers: Norson

September 2, 2007

*	Norson (Jonathan TR):  One does not hide 
one’s light under a basket but rather puts it upon 
a stand for all to see.  I am Norson, a 
melchizedek.  This light is the radiance of 
spiritual experience, the witness thereof is the 
knowledge of connection between the human self and 
God.  This experience is a trophy in life, and you 
know that trophies are often placed upon 
pedestals; the reward of the experience is thereby 
displayed.  In the acquirement of this experience 
which is ongoing, always occurring, there 
naturally develops the support structure, the 
pedestal, which manifests as philosophy and even 
religious theology.  Belief, concept, affinity, 
propensity, are among the many things that 
comprise this pedestal, be it an individual or 
greater social structure.  Though ornate it may 
become, it is the trophy upon it which is of 
greatest value, the spiritual experience.
	One may have an experience that is 
monumental, and it is good for one to have a peace 
that passes all understanding, to have a feeling 
which lies too deep for words, to, as they say, 
blow out the candle and leave the description 
behind.  This is good in itself, but you know also 
that you are to be in this world even while not 
being of this world.  You know that you are to go 
forth and teach the truths of spirit reality.  So 
there of necessity is a pedestal, a structure, for 
connection, your feet on the earth.
	If your experience is grand and your 
pedestal is feeble you will not be able to cope 
with the integration of the profound experience 
with your ordinary life, and it will be of no use 
in your fellows’ struggles to come into their 
light.  We, the teachers of this mission, come to 
help you develop that pedestal, what you have been 
told many times, your foundation.  But I also 
caution you about having an experience which is 
too minuscule.  Imagine with humor percieving a 
pedestal enormous in size, intricate in design, 
miles wide and high, with merely a beebee sitting 
upon it!
	You are encouraged in stillness, for it 
develops that light, the trophy of spiritual 
encounter.  Then you appropriate a pedestal to 
accommodate your level of attainment.
	You have been taught and know that it is 
quite well to alter, to change, your structure of 
support as your experience unfolds.  This light 
upon the stand is a light of combination.  It is 
the combustion, the fusing, of your human self 
with the divine Presence.  In this luminosity it 
cannot be seen the distinction, and each 
individual shines brightly, and each one has its 
own pedestal, a diversity of expression, of 
description.  Keep your mind open to this 
diversity, for it is the description of the unique 
character of each personality and its interface 
with God.  You will likewise express your 
relationship.  You will also cross fertilize each 
other, and in this socialization you will each 
brighten your spiritual experience, your divine 
encounter.
	Allowing for this variable experience of 
each individual with the divine removes the 
blindness which is much like, as you look to your 
lunar orb, it appears to always look the same.  
But you know, as you have advanced in knowledge, 
that that sphere has many sides unseen by the 
human, earthly, orientation.  So communion and 
fellowship with one another allows you to perceive 
the very many aspects of the divine presence.
	Jesus would go into the hills that he might 
be alone and commune with the Father, even for 
weeks at a time, even for a month.  But he always 
returned that he may share, perhaps not the direct 
experiences of that retreat but the rewards, the 
values.   While he would take some with him at 
times that  they may gain an inkling of what he 
endeavored to accomplish in such retreats to 
stillness, he knew his retreat would never be 
theirs and often taught the value of each one 
going apart to be alone with the Father.  I cannot 
stress enough the importance of this direct 
encounter.  But I also encourage you to be 
creative in your outward expression of this inward 
experience, the pedestal upon which this trophy is 
placed.  Let yours be unique and let it be sound 
and stable but beautiful and descriptive of the 
higher encounter.  Others will enjoy your 
expression and each of you will assist one 
another, will encourage each other into further 
communion and worship.
	When you are weary you may take your light 
and put it under a basket, for you may need to 
block the harsh winds that seek to put out your 
flame.  Let it rekindle; let it renew, but when 
you are again aglow, remove that protective 
covering and place yourself again back on that 
stand for all to see, to let your light so shine.
	The world will be transformed when it is 
clearly understood the distinction between the 
structures of change which are formulaic and 
secondary to the prime, direct, experience of 
truth -- and I mean truth as a spirit reality.  
This will put to peace divergent approaches to 
change and will allow for the entrance into the 
development of a coordinated harmony, a goal, 
which requires differing approaches just as when 
you build a structure you have carpenters, 
plumbers, electricians, painters; each one 
different, altogether the structure is complete.  
This is how your world will develop.  Have your 
experience which lies too deep for words, then 
place that light upon that pedestal that all may 
see.
	Thank you for granting me your audience.  I 
would be pleased to receive your feedback, your 
questions, or your observations.  Thank you.

	Tom:  You asked us to see truth as a 
spiritual reality. The Urantia Book states that 
truth is the greatest representation of our view 
of mercy and love, which are the two greatest 
realities, as contrasted with the duality which 
is, “She’s right; I’m wrong”, “They’re wrong”, and 
....

*	Norson:  Where truth is the description of 
love and mercy, there is also the description of 
truth, and this is to which I orient you in my 
comment.  I will use an example that moisture and 
water are similar, perhaps indistinguishable, but 
is water the reality and moisture the observation?  
Truth directly experienced is water; truths is 
moisture.  When the human soul experiences truth 
it becomes the moisture which is from the water of 
love and mercy.
	Thank you for your comment.

	Kathy:  Thank you for your description of 
rekindling our light when we find ourselves 
buffeted by strong winds and aren’t feeling quite 
up to shining, to take a moment, rekindle, and 
come back renewed.

*	Norson:  Indeed, many a soul who is dutiful 
in the outworking of the command to go forth and 
proclaim the gospel has exhausted itself.  You 
know and have experienced the effect upon a candle 
in a windy situation, how fast the fuel is spent, 
not so much to feed the flame, but wasted away and 
fallen beneath.  You are serving your fellows to 
retreat and to refresh, that you may glow longer 
with the fuel you have, to preserve your 
storehouse.  While the image of the candle is 
finite, in spiritual refreshment, the vat into 
which you may dip is infinite.
	Salutations to Michael and Mother Spirit.  
We give honor to the cause that is Nebadon, that 
the revelation of the Paradise Father may be 
beheld in our realm.  May we each be likewise a 
reflection of that brilliance of truth, beauty, 
and goodness, that love, that light.  May it be 
so.
	Thank you, my friends, for sitting with me 
today.  I take my leave.  Farewell.

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