[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 10/5/03

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Loyalty, Faithfullnes, 
Morontia Soul, Everlasting Presence.
Teachers: Elyon, Michael


October 5, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings 
to you, this is Elyon, happy to be 
back in attendance to enjoy our 
fellowship, one that has carried on 
for many years and has brought to me 
a great deal of satisfaction.
	It is your faithfulness that 
brings great delight.  I do know 
that you are loyal, and loyalty is 
of great value to all the teachers 
engaged in this mission, for we 
extend ourselves personally and with 
energy.  It is the loyal ones who 
make fruitful our effort, for you 
recognize and then follow this 
recognition of our mission program 
with your work, with service, with 
application of which you are 
learning.  This loyalty taken to 
this extent is faithfulness.  It is 
one thing to recognize that you 
belong and to align yourselves as if 
patriotically to the cause, to be 
willing to even die for the cause, 
but faithfulness is not simply 
alignment; it is engagement, 
stepping forward, heading out, 
facing the peril -- that may even 
terminate your life -- that opposes 
your loyalty.  I do not mean to 
frighten you with such thoughts but 
merely to amplify the value of your 
faithfulness and your loyalty.  
True, you have done this over these 
years.  You have placed yourself 
before strangers and acknowledged 
your sensitivity toward our 
Correcting Time, toward Michael’s 
mission of upliftment, and have been 
willing to extend our services 
through your service to others.
	I am encouraged by Rayson to 
address the recent transcript you 
have received which addresses the 
topic of morontia qualities.  As 
human beings so well rooted in your 
physical forms, the morontia 
dimension of your being appears 
intangible, very difficult to detect 
except at illumined moments, times 
of inspiration and heightened 
awareness.  I today assure you of 
its everpresence in spite of your 
ability to detect it.  While all the 
teachers and the divine spirit 
ministers given by grace to you are 
applying every effort to expanding 
your morontia sensibilities, you are 
also required in the process in 
order for there to be any success.
	Your first and most primary 
point of morontia contact, the most 
readily available source of contact, 
is your soul.  That is the pivotal 
intersection between your physical 
life and your morontia dimension.  
Few of you will be blessed with a 
morontia contact such as an angelic 
appearance or a brush with a 
midwayer, though this is not 
impossible and takes you into a 
state of morontia awareness.  Your 
most immediate, your very daily, 
morontia sensibility will be with 
your own soul.
	You who have studied well the 
teachings on soul as presented in 
the Urantia Papers understand how 
soul grows, that your experiences in 
cooperation with the Divine Presence 
provides the contributions to soul 
growth.  This partnership is 
important and may be likened to 
nourishing food.  It is quite 
impossible for you to live your 
daily lives without experience; it 
is impossible to separate living 
from experience.  So, it could be 
asked, does not any experience 
provide soul growth?  Therefore, 
since I experience continually am I 
not growing my soul continuously?  
Keep in mind that as ones that you 
are who take in material food, the 
simple ingestion of the food is not 
all that is needed to nourish you.  
This food must have content, 
vitamins, minerals, and the like.  
This is the role of the Divine 
Presence, for as you experience, the 
Divine Minister is extracting the 
nutrients from those experiences 
that feed your soul.
	To cooperate in soul growth look 
for rich experience, experiences 
full of spiritual qualities.  They 
do not have to be all of the same 
flavor.  They may create distress 
and discomfort as you engage in 
service.  They may not be all sweet 
desserts; they may be fiery main 
dishes.  But recognize those high 
content experiences, seek them, 
engage in them, and you will be 
rewarded by them.
	You understand through the 
mechanism of the physical body that 
through the process of ingesting 
food to nourish yourself that you 
also discard much in the process, be 
it in preparation or be it a day 
later.  But you have absorbed what 
is of value, and that has provided 
you with the energy to live.  
Likewise you have experiences in 
your past which today you may have 
regretted passing through.  You may 
have recognized its immaturity and 
are embarrassed by it.  But the 
recognition, the regret, both 
indicate you extracted value from 
that experience; it oriented your 
soul to a higher level of being.  
You have grown.  Those experiences 
have now become compost, waste 
material, no longer useful.  But you 
were nourished; your life was 
sustained, and you continued to 
live.  As your soul enlarges it is 
this accumulation of value through 
experience that magnifies the 
morontia quality of your being.
	Some of the nutrients that enter 
your body are used and then disposed 
of.  Some remain within your vehicle 
for decades, even your entire life.  
If we continue this comparison to 
soul growth, likewise do values come 
and go.  Some are held for decades, 
some for your entire life.  With 
reflection you would know that you 
as a physical being are not simply 
accumulations of nutritious 
components, that you are a 
personality, a living creature, and 
your soul has this autonomy as well.  
The values come, the values go.  The 
soul enlarges.  The soul is not 
simply the accumulation of a list of 
values of increasing loftiness.  
Morontia reality in your life 
becomes more reality as you 
undertake the human level process of 
engaging in experience, seeking 
higher experiences, spiritually 
uplifting experiences, extracting 
the value/nutrition, causing the 
enlargement of your soul.
	Know in faith and trust that 
God’s gift to you, His Indwelling 
Presence, is ever engaged 
cooperatively with you in this 
process to aid and to amplify, to 
adjust and to augment your endeavor.  
While this Divine Presence is highly 
spiritual, and while you oftentimes 
feel yourself to be highly material, 
you meet at the intersection of the 
morontia.  Reach up, the reach down 
is already in place, and you will 
find increasing success in expanding 
the morontia dimension of your 
being.
	Soul maturity creates a 
positioning of personality status 
wherein you will more naturally 
experience other aspects of  the 
morontia state such as the expansion 
of sensibility, greater conductivity 
of morontia energy, more accurate 
contact-ability with morontia 
beings, even a sense of prophetic 
foreknowledge, a knowledge not 
simply predictability of human 
events but one of overview, a 
morontia perspective which allows 
you to understand how events may 
unfold and why and even gain a sense 
of which way they will likely go.  
These are not given to young 
fledgling souls; these qualities 
arrive as you mature on the level of 
soul being.
	I have taken much time.  I am 
always happy to continue, but do 
desire your input.  I am always 
willing to have my associates 
address you.

	Mark:  We are intrigued by this 
morontia overlay experience.  It’s 
like trying to describe a color to a 
blind person, trying to illuminate 
for us the differences we might 
notice.  We eagerly anticipate the 
step to be taken in this corrective 
process.  We each need to firm our 
commitment and to apply ourselves to 
this process.  At some point our 
Thought Adjuster will intervene on 
our behalf.  Can you illuminate how 
that transition from the material to 
the spiritual occurs?

*	Elyon:  I began my address today 
with my first point of faithfulness 
because that is a key element in 
your morontia development.  You have 
expressed again your faithfulness in 
pursuing this overlay and 
cooperating with the many beings who 
are enlisted in the morontia 
upliftment of Urantia.
	I may give an image as it is 
hoped that it will lessen the 
tendency of over-excitement that may 
be aroused in such faithful humans 
as yourselves, that is, that when it 
is night and you sleep if you were 
to get up and suddenly turn the 
lights on in your room, you would 
see all things, however, it would be 
overwhelming as your eyes have not 
adjusted.  Yet when the sun 
gradually rises and your room slowly 
fills with light, when you open your 
eyes you see quite well without the 
sense of startling blindness.  This 
is the tactic that we are pursuing 
to bring morontia qualities more 
directly into your awareness and 
your usefulness.  So, I gave you my 
lesson on soul growth, for this is 
what you can do to aid in the rising 
sun bringing about the gradual 
illumination of spiritual light and 
do so without the temporary 
inhibition of too much light in too 
little time.

	Mark:  Very nice imagery!  I 
sense that now it’s important for 
those like us at the very end of the 
food chain of spirit to become 
proactive with our awareness.  I’m 
inspired that resources are being 
allocated to make great things 
happen.  I hope to be active in that 
process of faith turning active, 
assuming that is our role at this 
time.

*	Elyon:  I wholeheartedly 
encourage your proactivity.  Your 
boldness at stepping forward and 
showing or demonstrating or merely 
subtly indicating these realities, 
their usefulness, and their 
attainability -- if not met with 
success for having instilled within 
another these sensitivities -- it 
will have at least benefited you in 
the process, much like as if you 
were to prepare a meal for many and 
invite them to partake.  Some will 
eat all on their plates, some very 
little or none at all.  But you have 
taken in what you have prepared, you 
have eaten, and you have grown.  The 
results will be varied as you 
proactively reach out to others.  
But without preparing that meal 
quite a few would go unnourished.  
You can provide that nourishment.  
You can aid the Father’s presence 
within them by being a chef.

	Mark:  A chef is a good one 
because one gets the impression of 
someone assembling nutritious 
ingredients, selecting from the many 
wonderful lessons we have been 
blessed with from you and the 
others, dishing up the most glorious 
of the fruits of the spirit to be 
beheld and consumed by   
others.

*	Elyon:  Well said, my friend.  
It is the chef that not only 
recognizes and utilizes the graces 
of God that come to meet the chef’s 
talents and abilities, but a good 
chef also recognizes the needs of 
ones that he feeds to provide not 
only required nutrition but to avoid 
allergic reaction and to accommodate 
personal preferences.  This is the 
very undertaking of a minister for 
Michael, to receive the blessings 
and the gifts that Michael provides, 
to prepare them for reception based 
on the needs and longings of the 
many souls who come into your life.

	Mark:  I find myself more 
quickly availing myself of the 
connection of my individual 
alignment and affirming my 
willingness to be a part in the 
circuit to this world.  I’m struck 
how often I don’t catch myself 
providing myself with this backup 
and later wishing I had.  Perhaps I 
should be more mantra-  like with my 
petition to be of service.  When I 
do it I feel a strong connection.  
I’m trying to learn to ask sooner 
for divine assistance in advance.

*	Elyon:  It is also an indication 
of your increased morontia 
sensitivity that you are sensitized 
to that contact and you are also 
able to recognize when you have not 
sought that contact.  Both are 
useful.
	It may be likened to a mechanic 
who heads out on a job and arrives 
only to discover that he has not 
brought his tool box.  While that 
particular job fails to be 
accomplished he recognized it and on 
a subsequent job does not forget 
that tool box, in this case, to 
petition that connection with 
spirit.  Following this experience 
this mechanic discovers that, when 
he arrives at his job, while he 
brought his tool box, he did not 
have a tool.  So, the next journey 
that tool is also packed in the box.
	Each time you engage in service 
and in stillness you come to 
recognize the tools you are lacking 
and the tools you possess.  You 
develop the ability to go through 
your list and pack all tools you do 
possess.  Eventually the awareness 
develops of what is involved in 
service projects or any personal 
growth endeavor.  Such a mechanic, 
while packing his tools, checking 
his list, will also stop by the 
store on the way to the job to 
purchase what he does not have.
	I pause as I desire intently 
once again to emphasize stillness as 
the tool store where you may 
purchase what you lack through 
divine communion.  While you may 
make that purchase in stillness, 
oftentimes you must await the 
arrival, the shipment, of that tool 
as it comes to you through the 
pathway of service, of daily living.

	Mark:  I recognize the beauty of 
that comparison.  Sometimes an idea 
comes to throw in an extra thing 
that might be effective on a job, a 
nudge to be more prepared compared 
with carrying your regular toolbox.  
It’s not necessary to petition every 
day, every experience, that you not 
forget your tool box but keep 
petitioning spirit for additional 
tools or requirements to find in 
stillness.  Thank you for that 
imagery.

*	Elyon:  And I thank you for that 
summary, for you have composed quite 
well the importance intended in this 
imagery.

	Mark:  Thank you again for your 
contributions.  It’s wonderful to 
have a friend like you.

*	Elyon:  I receive your 
appreciation.  I extend it to you in 
return.  We have many exchanges 
behind us in these past years.  I 
look forward to many more.  I have 
witnessed much growth.  It has been 
a long time since I said you were in 
kindergarten.  You have advanced 
greatly to my satisfaction.  I see 
down the road from my students who 
go in potential and am ever willing 
and almost always ready to actualize 
those potentials.

*	Michael:  This is Michael.  I am 
proud of my assistant teacher Elyon 
as I am proud of all my children who 
work for our Father.
	I have repeatedly expressed to 
you my everpresence knowing full 
well that you understand this, for I 
do know intimately the oscillations 
of the human consciousness and how 
distracted one can become and miss 
the sense of my presence, of our 
partnership.  Today I bring you 
words through a transmitter/receiver 
so as to again remind you of this 
continued presence of mine.
	I know you relish that 
sensibility when you are heightened 
in awareness and feel my presence.  
Please, never berate yourself when 
you recognize the opposite, when you 
feel distant, disconnected.  Know I 
am with you always.  The one who 
lacks and has no recognition does 
not even have the hope of receiving 
what is lacking.  But to the one who 
lacks and recognizes it, the 
universe is at that person’s feet 
ready to serve, ready to provide.  
Take this in faith always.  When you 
are troubled, when you are in need 
of comfort, I am here.