North
Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics:Spring Cleaning on a Spiritual Level
Teachers:
Elyon
March 23,
2003
* Elyon
(Jonathan TR): Greetings, friends, this is Elyon, glad to be
with you as always to share the camaraderie, to delight in our
expanded sense of the divine working in the world and within
your lives. As it is that time again in this part of the world
of spring, I wish to take a moment and encourage you to begin
your spring cleaning on a spiritual level.
You
have been discussing many topics which are interconnected in
their spiritual foundation, and each brings to your fore-mind
the inquiry as to how you may be available and applied to the
furtherance, the prosperity, and the improvement of this world
and rectifications, repairs, and restorations. As is the case
with your physical environment so it is in the spiritual realm
that over time items accumulate, serve their purpose, and when
the purpose has run its course often remain to clutter your
environment. Today I ask you to reflect on spiritual clutter,
perhaps more accurately conceptual clutter that muddies your
clarity, that makes it difficult for you to wade through in
order to grasp the spirit angle, the spirit perspective. The
final step in this cycle of acquiring, applying, is to release
and discard.
Oftentimes a physical object may be difficult to release
from your possession due to sentiment, fond associations, the
value you perceive in its onetime usefulness. On a spiritually
conceptual level, this same cycle applies and can be even more
difficult to complete than a physical application, for you have
no difficulty of ridding yourself of those very worn out pairs
of shoes, those no longer running vehicles, and the like. But
oftentimes those constructs of mind that define spiritual
reality at the stages prior to your current understanding remain
to confuse your further development. This is what I ask you to
honestly search for and boldly face and willingly discard.
Honor it for its serviceability and purpose, not just for its
value then but also for the gift of its delivery to you, the new
potentials that lie in front of you.
Two
examples of stumbling blocks that will aid you in a further
search are regret and resentment. I choose these because they
at surface level do not appear to be some element that was
helpful prior to your current state of being. This way I intend
to indicate that you may look widely through your being for
those cleansing opportunities. When an event occurred that bore
upon you such an experience that you come to resent, know and
apply the truth that this experience happened once. I would
footnote that some experiences repeat themselves, however, each
experience happened once. Resentment, to those of you in this
era of rapid communication, is simply within yourself resending
to your memory that old experience. The experience is no
longer, but your mind and emotions resend it over and over, and
this becomes a hindrance to your growth. Likewise is regret. In
this instance I choose this word to distinguish it from
resentment, for it allows me to point out that some of these
regrettable situations are not ones that happen to you but are
caused by you. Egress is a word you use to indicate leaving,
exit. Digress indicates you have varied from your course, from
your direction. Regress indicates a return over previously
covered topics. Regret also is a back- cycling of your
experience. You must determine when usefulness, those lessons,
the truths extracted therefrom, have served their purpose and do
your spring cleaning. Put them in the trash, set them on the
curb, and let them go.
It is
difficult because sentiment, attachment, are likewise applied to
these more uncomfortable conditions as much as those cherished
experiences. But you know, just as it is work to rake your
yards to gather up the winter’s clutter, to break a sweat in
doing so, to take your valuable time away from pleasurable
activities, social activities, that when the work is done the
yard bursts forth in new growth. The beauty of the new cycle is
enhanced and increased by your manual labor. In the inner
sanctum of your being this also holds true.
It is
not my place to tell you where and what; you must find for
yourselves those things that you desire to discard. I am not an
interior designer. I am not here to reposition your inner
house. All I care to do is to encourage you to look around and
select those possessions, for they are yours, not mine, that you
wish to keep, that you wish to discard, and that you wish to
apply now that you have not been utilizing but merely storing.
You
are excited this day about prospects for going forth into the
world and ministering, shedding the light so that others may be
blessed. This is a delight to our Creator Son.
As I
wrap up I will make a final comment that when you travel you can
only take what is of service in your journey. All other
household items must be left behind. So, as you go forth, as
you at this hour rally your enthusiasm to proceed, pack what you
need. Be not concerned about that which you are not going to
take; it will be there when you return. Your house may not be
finished in its decorating or its remodeling, but you still can
travel; you can still pack your bags with those needed items. I
say this because you may feel inadequate, under-prepared to
engage in planetary ministry for the celestial administrators on
this world. Rest assured that in your assignment you will only
need that which fits in your travel bag. You will not need all
of your possessions. You have faith. This is good. You may not
have courage. That is fine. Pack in your bags your faith.
Courage may not be in your home, but you may find it on your
journey.
I
hope this stimulates you to do your spring cleaning. Only you
can place merit upon the valuable and the discard-able. I am
here to be of service in questions. Others are in my midst
should you request their contact.
Ginny: Jesus, in The Urantia Book, warned against self
examination. How do we distinguish between the wrong kind and
our normal way of discarding what we don’t need?
* Elyon: Emphasis was upon the often developed quagmire of
overmuch self examination wherein the investigating,
determining, categorizing; the noting, itemizing, slating,
elements of examination go on indefinitely. At some point in
your refinement of being a decision ought to be made, a
commitment chosen, and you proceed therefrom. To return to my
theme of spring cleaning, we may liken this to having a yard
wherein nothing is planted. You begin the research of which
shrubbery, grass types, pathways you may use to landscape and
continue to examine these elements for a decade, all the while
weeds and dust exist in your yard. This is what he cautioned
against.
You
know that the master spent forty days alone in the hills
examining his role in his bestowal mission for the Father and
for the world. He made his decisions and resolutely conducted
the rest of his life as he taught, with self forgetfulness. The
choice was made and the mission set, and he focused on his
ministry. The apostles to whom he spoke at the time felt as
many of you often do, inadequate for the mission. He wished to
allay these fears by encouraging them to redirect their
attention from their inadequacies to those around them who
lacked what they had already acquired. If you continued your
spring cleaning all the way into next winter, you may miss the
beauties of the seasons intervening. This is what he cautioned
you about.
If I
may put it another way, you wake up a spring morning and gaze
upon your lawn and find weeds growing all through it. Sound
self examination is plucking the weeds that you can perceive.
Overmuch self examination is tearing up all the sod looking for
every seed that may germinate that is a weed. I hope this has
clarified.
Ginny: Thank you.
We
are delighted to have Monjoronson among us. Could you give us a
little more on his purpose here? We welcome him mightily
happily into our group.
* Elyon: He likewise is thrilled to make the connection and
to draw you consciously into association. His purpose spans
beyond this smaller circle of Teaching Mission ministers which
includes you all. The scope would be far too much to relay to
you, but relating to your association, this great Son of God is
upstepping your awareness of your real association with the
celestial ministers upon this world. First you became sensitive
to, welcomed, and began working with beings like myself who have
been assigned to this world to teach. Then you received contact
from many melchizedek advisors. You have become acquainted with
a Trinity Teacher Son and archangels. Not to burden you with
the majesty of such great beings, you also have been introduced
to friends like Lester and artists from the celestial spheres of
art. This Avonal Son is one more introduction leading to an
incorporation of all these efforts of all these personalities
under Michael’s Correcting Time mission.
If I
may place this in context, there is one mission in Nebadon, and
that is for all the children under Michael’s care to contribute
to and attain Light and Life. Narrowing in upon any locality,
be it a system or a planet, there are variables, localized
conditions, which dictate variable applications in ministry and
upliftment. So, the tasks of the melchizedeks are to develop
educational programs for uplifting all creatures in those
localities and for the Magisterial Son to weigh the efforts to
determine future direction, to signal close, and to inaugurate
openings. While the Trinity Teacher Sons project towards Light
and Life, the Magisterial Son works within the cycles, the
manifold steps toward Light and Life, opening and closing each
step when it is relevant, when it is applicable.
The
melchizedeks project the lesson plans; the Teacher Sons chart
the course to the golden future, and the Avonals mark the cycles
and determine the merit and the needs.
I
hope this clarifies.
Ginny: Thank you.
Tom:
He is opening a step now rather than closing one?
* Elyon: Yes and no. May I illustrate. As you pass through
a door, you both open and close. So, the new cycle is opening
with his presence, but that at the same time implies the closure
of an older cycle. However, I must caution you creatures whose
time spans are narrower than an Avonal Son’s that when the door
swings open and shut the interval of time is greater than you
may be able to perceive. The transition is occurring now.
You
have been spoken to by Machiventa in weeks recent regarding our
many years of preparatory lessons and the beginning of a new
phase in this mission. So it has become the opportune time
within our teaching classroom for you to be in contact with this
son. Therefore, as regards our group, the new cycle has begun.
As a matter of promoting my lesson of today, in order to
encourage that new cycle, it is worthwhile for you to gather up
the clutter and discard the non-useful, that which will not help
in the new cycle, though it may have been quite valuable in the
previous.
Or if
I may put it another way, you have a guest arriving. It is
natural when a guest is coming for a host to tidy up. If it is
difficult to eliminate some cherished qualities, though they are
acquiring tarnish, do it not for yourself; do it because the
guests are arriving.
Kirk: One of the things I can leave behind is the feeling
that I am not going to live on this world and see the era of
Light and Life. I could live it now. All the gifts that God
has given us are here now. I could live like Light and Life is
here right now, seeing those gifts as present.
* Elyon: This is a fantastic comment! for the era of Light
and Life that you hope for is often taken as a global condition,
and this condition is down the road of time. To resolve oneself
to the understanding that one’s lifespan may not cover enough of
this road of time that you will witness Light and Life may lead
to complacency, the feeling that, since it is not here now, I
need not be too concerned with the conditions of the world, for
they do not represent Light and Life which is a long ways off.
This will not bring Light and Life. However, as you establish
Light and Life within yourself, and this is possible within your
lifetime, you begin the expansion of Light and Life on this
world. As each of you does, and you all gather en masse, the
day of the arrival as a planet approaches with greater speed.
Thank
you for making that observation.
Tom:
The same would hold for Adjuster attunement, would it not? It’s
not something that has to wait for the future. Spring clean
that out and accept it now.
* Elyon: Yes. Remember the Divine Fragment dwelling within
you hails from eternity. Time is only a constraint to the
Indwelling Spirit because time is a condition of your human
personality. Because time is part of your human condition, it
is your choice the length or brevity of the interval of time
between partial and complete alignment, attunement and fusion.
It
lightens my heart, cultivates joy, to observe your comments of
things that you may eradicate that are forward looking. I chose
the surgical examples of clearing out resentment, regret. You
chose the acquiring examples of attaining Light and Life and
aligning with the Divine Spirit within. It illustrates the
progress you have made in your spirit vantage point, your
observation deck, of how you will conduct your life and what
work needs to be done.
Ginny: I would like to discard the notion that I am alone
in all this, not just physically but spiritually too. Many are
working for the same thing; certainly celestials are helping us.
* Elyon: I must relate to you the stand of applause that has
just ensued from your comment. Many here are overjoyed at your
recognition.
Evelyn: I allow myself to be swayed by emotional stimulus.
That’s something to jettison. The perspective of “do unto
others” is helpful to get me out of gloominess, for example.
Now it’s a matter of identifying those emotions and let them go
when they appear, and not to beat myself up when they do creep
up.
* Elyon: You have illustrated a key principle, the doing unto
others. While it may not be exciting the prospect of raking
one’s own yard, it is quite enjoyable to go next door and engage
with another in cleaning up their yard, not that you are
desirous of fixing their problems, but that it is in the
fellowship that you are energized.
Ginny: It’s hard to give up, like dieting, because of the
deprivation we think we are feeling. Rather than discard we can
take on something that is the opposite to help us spiritually.
* Elyon: Indeed. And if each of you keeps up these comments
I will have lost my purpose!
Evelyn: Well, don’t be resentful!
Tom:
You are talking about getting rid of spiritual scaffolding. It’s
difficult when you don’t know what era we are moving into.
Which precepts do you want to take with you? In what we refer
to as Machiventa’s Manifesto, he suggests getting rid of
concepts that no longer serve and embracing new ones.
* Elyon: I one time gave you the lesson of climbing the
ladder. Encased in that lesson was to help you accept the lower
rungs you dwelled upon as you ascended, not to regret those
early stages, for they lifted you higher up the ladder. But if
you were to remove those lower rungs the ladder would collapse.
You illustrate that it is important to discern what is
discard-able and what is keep-able. To use this analogy, I
would say that this is the focus of deliberately lifting your
foot off the rung you have been on and stepping beyond the rung
you are on to the rung you are heading toward. This is where
the cleansing can begin. It is not the removal of the rung; it
is the lifting of your foot and your moving from it.
Another illustration perhaps would be imagine yourself
living in a vast estate with many rooms, and you wish to cross
from one end to the other, and it is nighttime. As you go
through your rooms, you may turn on a light to enter and turn
off a light to leave. Your spiritual progress is the same. The
room you have gone through in your growth was turned on,
illuminated for you to grow. As you left you turned off the
light. The stage of development still exists; that era is your
history, but the light is not on at that level any longer. You
have taken your spirit luminosity into another room.
You
express the desire to understand the next stage. You are at
this time standing in the doorway turning off the light in the
older room, and not quite yet have you turned on the light in
the new room. I pledge to you all my efforts to help you find
the light switch and perceive that new era that is at your feet.
Tom:
That would be Life and Light?
* Elyon: Yes, indeed.
Ginny: Light and Life is evolutionary. It doesn’t turn on
as fast as a light switch.
* Elyon: It is. However, it can have some elements of
instantaneous-ness. May I illustrate again. Night falls over
the valley, and all who dwell within that valley have the
ability to illuminate their own houses. As it darkens, as the
sun sets, one or two lights come on, and a few more, and a few
more. Soon by nightfall the entire village is aglow. So, Kirk
will have turned on his Light and Life light, and so will have
you and each of you in this room and many around. That is the
evolution of Light and Life. Each of you attain and eventually
all will arrive.
I
must indicate to you that Light and Life is not a condition of a
planet, per se, even of a universe; it is a condition of all who
dwell therein. Each one accumulates to the totality of Light
and Life. Nebadon will not be in Light and Life until each
personality is in Light and Life, just as a city does not turn
on all its lights at the same time when night falls.
I
hope this helps.
Ginny: It would be a good practice for us every time we
turn on a light to remember.
* Elyon: I will withdraw my presence, as it has been some
time in our engagement. Thank you for your participation; it
thrills me. Don’t forget to polish the light bulbs before you
turn them on.
