Elyon 09/14/97

[Rick P. Giles]

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September 14, 1997
*       Elyon (Jonathan TR):  In an effort to displace even a
minuscule quantity of uncertainty, I am permitted to provide an
external confirmation to you of an inner acknowledgement of
Father contact that you have each this morning made.  
        I am Elyon.  I will make some comparisons today, not so to
specifically discuss a particular topic, but rather my intent is
to, through comparison, expose pattern so that you may increase
your insight into any specific area in your life.  For instance,
we have been discussing with you the elements of selfhood:
personality, soul, ego, mind, and Thought Adjuster.  Let us look
at ideals, ideas, and actions.
        Many and quite different are ideas.  You can corral an idea
with many other ideas under the umbrella of an ideal and thereby
focus the idea into an action which is contributory to the ad-
vancement of an ideal.  Your selfhood is the same.  You are
capable of corralling your mind, your soul, into and under the
umbrella of the Divine Spirit, thereby creating action which ad-
vances your personality.  We have continually asked you to be
bold and, though this word can connote a degree of aggressive
disregard, we intend it as a push to be active.  An idea coupled
with an ideal is only a potential; it is not real until it is
further linked to action.  Your personality coupled with the
Father takes upon a reality that is inexpressible until you live
this relationship.  Merely to understand who your Father is and
who you are are only two legs of the stool.  The third leg is
that you must live the relationship.  
        I would attempt to clarify some of your questioning of ego
and personality.  Your personalities are packed full of
potential; much of which you will not realize, and it resides
with you for ages.  Only a little of what is in your storehouse
is only now beginning to come to your attention.  
        The expression of your personality powers is often described
as ego.  Ego is a flawed attempt to express personality that is
unskilled at expressing its talents.  I do not use "flawed" to
indicate that ego is wrong any more than you would consider a
poorly penned word to be wrong simply because the writing is not
calligraphic.  Picture, if you would, a large amount of dough in
a colander being pressed through the holes as you would do to
make noodles.  Each strand is one limited expression of your
personality.  Each opening is your incomplete ego-like aperture. 

        When you describe your ego as an element to control or dis-
pense with, you are merely recognizing the constriction of
aperture.  To be more like the Father is not to be less like
yourself, but rather to be wide open to allow all of you to be
revealed, thus revealing the Father.  This will take a long time. 
I remind you that you are only scratching the surface of the
mysterious gift of personality that you are.
        To return to ideals and ideas, an ideal can contain infinite
ideas wherein it is defined and expressed.  Humankind has been
struggling with the issue of the exaltation of self since the
dawn of civilization, since the skill for socialization began to
develop.  Many of your animals struggle to preserve self; man
attempts to exalt self.  Improperly directed, it becomes what you
commonly consider selfish ego.  Properly directed it can be
viewed as an ascending child toward perfection and the Father. 
This is a constant struggle within you to properly orient this
natural tendency of the human being.  
        You have been intrusted with great power.  To eliminate you,
your human self, from the overall assembly of your greater being
would disrupt the potentials placed into your charge.  Pause to
reflect one moment that even God's presence is subservient to
your directive choice.  Accepting you and applying yourself is
the boldness we ask.  All this is appropriate when understood in
the pattern like an ideal and an idea, for your understanding of
the overall configuration of your entire being will orient your
expression truthfully, beautifully, and with goodness.  For
instance, you can invent a knife and generate the idea that it
cuts things, severs, that it opens things.  Now it has the
potential to be dangerous.  It also has the potential to be a
surgeon's tool.  The ideal qualifies the idea, but the idea in
action creates usefulness.  Here is where your ego comes in, in
personality expression and in living your understanding of the
Father's will.  
        I hope I have created some thoughts for you to consider
today.  Reflective comparison of various topics can strengthen
insight into each of them, even when the topics are seemingly
different.  I am through with my statements.
        Evelyn:  You have broadened my understanding of what
personality is.  I have tended to think of it more like a license
plate, an identifying quality that makes us each unique.  Now you
are saying it's this vast untapped reservoir that throughout our
whole ascension we will be discovering.  It's expressed through
our ego; I understand you to say our ego chooses what actions,
how emerging aspects of the personality will be expressed. 
*       Elyon:  Two comments:  One, there is an infinite quantity of
time granted to you to become fully cognizant of divinity, deity. 
It will take eternity to discover the depth of God.  The same
amount of time will be required to comprehend the mystery of your
personality, for, you see, your personality is of the Father,
from the Father, and He, too, is personal.  There is a bottomless
well to be drunk from.  
        Second comment:  You mention ego deciding what to express. 
I would orient you toward the understanding that your personality
decides; the expression then becomes the ego.  It is the
commitment of personality to a specific expression.  This is why
the ego is viewed by your religious and psychologic concept
frames as a self-oriented dimension, for it is the commitment of
personality to action.  Action itself immediately defines,
limits, your being.  Many things cannot be done while you are
doing one thing.  The limitation is ego, much like the spaghetti
strand through the colander. The personality is unlimited.  The
personality chooses how to express.  How is ego expression.  The
fact that it is you is why I can define your actions as ego.  
        Altruism is meaningless without self.  Without self there is
no self to actively ignore in order to serve another.  When
mankind understand that there need be no battle between self and
other-than-self, that the two are actually dependent on one
another, then much peace will ensue.  
        I now point out to you the difference between self denial
and self forgetfulness in light of our discussion.  Denial
attempts to devalue who you are and in the end results in pre-
occupation with the denial of you.  Self forgetfulness implies
that you understand who you are and are now applying your talents
to the service of a greater self, the Father, and the greater
collection, your brotherhood.  
*       unidentified [perhaps Elyon continuing] (Michael):  If I may
continue this theme, the only effective technique to uncover and
reveal and realize your personality is through the actions that
you take.  Much as the ideas work to support an ideal, as you
search your ideas and align them with your ideals, your ideals
become more real.  In the same sense, as your actions are per-
formed throughout time, your personality will become more
apparent, more actualized.  So, as your ideals can be held high
and ideas can be accepted, modified, or rejected, so is it with
your personality and your actions.  Your actions will always bear
upon and reflect your personality.  However, just as some ideas
are more promoting of certain ideals, certain actions, when
aligned and viewed over a longer term perspective, will help you
to actualize and realize who you are.  So look at all your
attempts as a small glimpse of your personality, knowing that
many actions will not bear the fruits.  The ones that do will
remain.  You will discover the patterns of your existence and
their relationship to God and the brotherhood.  Take no episode
too importantly ...(tape flipped)...  a multitude of endeavors to
accomplish.  
        I would only say that it is a testimony to the drawing power
of God to see you from virtually the beginning striving to find
God to align your personality with His.  It is beautiful to see
the interaction of the patterns and the thrust of growth.  
        Jonathan:  When you mention that it will take a multitude of
actions to express our personality, something like that, when we
say that someone has done something egotistical, perhaps that
"eww, bad!" factor is taking one action too importantly.  We
could downplay that quality by having the broader view that many
actions are needed to reveal our personality, our true self.  
*       Elyon (Jonathan):  I would add one more comment.  We have
not discussed soul, and I would point out that the relationship
of an idea to an ideal gives meaningful significance.  The
relationship of self to God is soul, meaningful significance.  
        I return to the idea of flour and water for noodles; the
mixing of flour and water creates the potential for significance
and meaning, but meaning and significance only become real when
it is warmed, whether it be noodles of various shapes or cookies. 
Such is the evolution of soul.  This is the variety God seeks in
time and space.  To know the will of the Father is to be an aware
personality of His reality and His desires.  But to do the will
of the Father is to be an active expressive personality.  Doing
is the soul.  Knowing is the personality.  
        I thank you for your attention today.  
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Rick Giles

Fact is like air. Wind is like truth. The moment we close the doors and windows
to our soul truth goes stale and ends up merely fact. Angels use the "air" of
human thinking to convey the "wind" of spiritual realities. RG
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In essence we're a chip off the old block; when my chip comes from where
your chip was we seem so similar. If my chip was from the other side of the
block we might find ourselves to be quite different. RG