North Idaho Teaching Mission Group

Topics: Teacher's Intention is to
Adjust Our Perspective. The
Almighty, and the Indwelling
Fragment. Elyon's Friendship,
Michael Speaks

Teachers:Lantarnek, Elyon, Michael

January 11, 2004

* Lantarnek (Jonathan TR):
Greetings to you, this is Lantarnek.
I am happy to be present in good
company, to have the honor of
interfacing with my beloved human
associates. I have been dedicated
to encouraging your upstep in
spiritual perspective, in spiritual
stature, and have been rewarded by
your success.
It is unlikely that we teachers
have much in the way of new
knowledge to impart to you, for it
has been accomplished through your
current possession of the Papers for
Urantia, and the world in which you
live today is well enough
interconnected to allow you to have
access to information from any
culture. Your civilizations have
developed wherein you now preserve
expressions of knowledge by the
brothers and sisters who have gone
before you. Today you can access
these. On the other hand, our
primary intention is to adjust your
perspective repeatedly in regard to
any particular topic that we
address, for knowledge is like a
tool; it is of no value if it is
only possessed and not put to work.
You have discovered that many tools
work in quite a few situations, and
some tools even apply well to a task
that they were not designed to
accomplish. So, our goal is to
awaken in you insight, to stimulate
reflection that you will realize new
meanings of that which you already
possess. It is the working side of
knowledge.
I assure you that you please
all the teachers who gather in this
group within the mission, for you do
endeavor continually to wring, to
wrest, new meanings from the truths
you have collected over these years.
The goal of Light and Life upon
Urantia will be realized in future
years by the efforts of those who
follow after you, not merely because
they will have the database of
knowledge gathered by all ancestors,
but they will also have developed in
the cultures to follow on this world
the ability to perceive and re-
perceive, to understand and to re-
understand the knowledge. It is the
fresh application that will bring
such a wonderful, beautiful
condition upon this world.
Urantia exists within the
finite realm; there is only so much
that can be known by the finite
mind. Therefore, to enlarge the
Supreme we all are set at the task
of rearranging, modifying,
deepening, and expanding those
finite elements.
While we purpose to increase
your natural tendency to investigate
the new hidden within the old for
the aim of Light and Life, we also
hold sacred in our trust the
knowledge that you are a child of a
divine, heavenly Being, and that
relationship supersedes in value all
other aims and goals throughout the
universe. Within you is the
presence of God, complete. It is a
miracle that the totality of God
exists within each one of you
discretely and singly. Much as you
understand your holographic
technology and science, you have all
of everything you need.
Like our lessons, your
objective in touching the divine is
to take different approaches to
adjust your angle of perception, or
more rightly, reception. While you
enjoy the comfort of familiarity in
your contact with the divine, you
have a vast array of approaches
available. As you build a
background of experience in contact
with God through many approaches,
your base of operation as a worker
of light upon this world broadens
and stabilizes. Then you are of
greater benefit to many people; you
are less vulnerable to setback from
a too narrow base of operation
wherein you may topple too easily
when confronted by aggression or
negativity. You understand the
variety, for you practice the
variety within yourself.
Many human beings discount
their value in assuming that God is
too busy for them to be noticed or
their desires to be of high priority
on the to-do list of God. The
Almighty Presence that runs the
universe is expansive and does
uphold all things. God does have a
tremendous task of universe
operation. While you seek to
receive the down-grasp, the settling
upon you, of the embrace of God,
simultaneously allow in your
awareness the uprising of the same
divine Presence from the core of
your being. While you may feel
unworthy as a human, let yourself
enjoy the spectacle of the meeting
of the great omnipresent God with
the deep indwelling inner spirit
right on the stage of your own
presence. Join in that, recognize
the connection. God reaches down
toward you and reaches up within
you, and everyone of you contains
this potential or actualized
transaction.
To reach for God is simply the
opening of receptivity. You
experience yourself sandwiched
between these two elements of the
outreach of God: the great, the
Almighty, and the Indwelling
Fragment.
All celestial ministers pledge
to assist any soul who seeks the
warm embrace of divine presence.
All other universe projects can wait
when the time is ripe for a
personality to awaken to that sacred
relationship of child to divine
Parent.
This explains much to the
impatient soul who wishes for
greater progress in the world, for
nothing is more important than the
understanding of connectivity to God
as an individual soul. We will
honor that search even if that means
that your world were to be
disrupted, even if project Urantia
fails to find completion -- though I
assure you as a melchizedek we will
go to all ends to preserve this
planet as an expression of universe
life at this level of being.
I have finished my remarks. I
am in good company today. Thank
you.

Evelyn: I hear a lot of
similarity between your message
today and the last session on
walking toward God and walking with
God.

* Lantarnek: Yes, the principle
involved is the same.

Tom: Last week the comment was
made that one can walk toward God
and one can walk with God and the
addition was that one can walk as
God.

* Lantarnek: I recognize that
perception as valid, though I
understand human nature enough to be
sensitive to the feeling by many
that associating oneself as God is
too great a grasp. Few can absorb
that perspective and remain in the
balance of humbleness and the
associated responsibility of such a
condition. Nonetheless, the goals
of divine fusion entail this very
realization.
I mentioned perceiving yourself
sandwiched between the God of all
and the divine Inner Spirit. That
is the extent to which you can allow
yourself to perceive your being as
walking as God. This sandwiching
perhaps will allow you to adopt the
perspective to let you transition
from your self evaluation as a
material, world-bound human being to
a universe child of light and love.

Mark: Perhaps more palatable
to the human condition would be the
interim stage of walking for God
before getting to the point of
walking as God.

* Lantarnek: This is a good
observation. Walking with God
assumes companionship. Walking for
God implies representation, that
while you may all the while
acknowledge divine presence walking
with God, walking for God allows the
human mind to stand in stead, to
represent ambassadorially the
divine. A loyal, trustworthy
representative increasingly becomes
identified with that which he
represents. Walking for God
eventuates in walking as God.

Tom: Earlier you had a triad:
stillness, service, and study. I
see walking toward God as study,
walking with God as stillness, and
walking for God as service.

* Lantarnek: You, my friend,
exemplify the very tack we take in
teaching to you, your ability to
rotate meaning for a new angle of
perspective and to there derive
greater insight. I applaud you.

* Elyon (Mark): Greetings, this
is Elyon. I would poke my head into
the classroom, as it were, simply to
interject into your thoughts that I
am a witness to this group activity,
a partner behind the scenes.
I am everlastingly pleased with
the attitude of the students in this
classroom and the respect they show
individuals who have agreed to guide
them. There is no need to add more
bulk to the amount to be digested
here today but rather to expand the
sense of camaraderie, that even
though I do not always seize the
opportunity to make my presence
known to you, I am always observing
your progress and am always pleased
to be in attendance at your
meetings, wherein I learn a great
deal about how you assimilate the
lessons, the effectiveness of
various approaches, and am always
pleased to behold your dedication to
this process. We share that in
common. From one involved in the
process to another, it is helpful
from time to time to provide this
recognition that we are in fact
sailing the ship together. We may
rotate whose turn it is to man
individual stations, but we are all
pulling for the one goal, the
forward momentum of spiritual growth
both individually and collectively.
In this regard I enjoy, indeed,
cherish these experiences we have
together as I know you do. So, let
us all man our stations as we see
them at this hour and all work under
the guidance and coordination of
Michael’s divine plan which we are
engaged in unfolding and which it is
our privilege to be a part of.
Thank you each one, my dear
friends, for this journey we share
together. I remain in attendance.

* Michael (Jonathan): I extend
myself into the range of your
hearing. I too feel as Lantarnek
that I am in good company today.
This is Michael.
Let us rest together to honor
the Father of all, our Father.
Rejuvenate yourself with the sense
of His penetrating grace. Welcome
that love ever before you, always
upon you, even rising within. We
all have the spotlight of the divine
light upon us. It illuminates the
way. It opens the eyes. It warms
the heart. My children, it is a
great presence.
I support you in your efforts
to climb the mountain, to reach the
peak to behold the view, even to
transfigure above and beyond the
mountain into the heavenly skies. I
take you up with me; I present you
to our Father. You are His gift to
me. In your growth in our
relationship you are my gift to Him.
I reside with you in peace.