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[Rick P. Giles]

January 12, 1997
*       Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Friends, I greet you again, Elyon
speaking.  In times past I have greeted you with the line that I
am your guide to under-standing, and other teachers greet their
students with the line that they are "the one who loves you".  I
choose to reflect on these phrases today for there is
significance in each.  
        Understanding is a process that is undertaken singly, one
which each individual does for themselves, and therefore a
teacher like myself can only be a guide.  I cannot give under-
standing; I can only allow you to realize through the
possibilities presented in such a context as today's lessons.  
        Love, on the other hand, requires at least two to be
experienced.  Love is not like understanding in that it need not
grow; it simply is.  The element of increase that provides the
feeling of growth in love is, in reality, the increase in your
ability to maintain love as an experience over time.  To love
more means to love more continually.  Understanding is a growing
process from ignorance to enlightenment; it can be added to. 
When you experience love you can be assured that you have
experienced what love is completely.  When you experience under-
standing you are always faced with the realization that
understanding will be incomplete as increased knowledge is pre-
sented to you and assimilated.  It therefore always contains the
element of uncertainty.  When you love, you love now and
completely.  Therefore is the truth exposed in the phrase that
you love another only as much as you love yourself.  
        The work you undertake to grow involves both these two aspe-
cts, the experience of love and the experience of expanding your
awareness of reality.  When I have expressed to you that I love
you, I will assure you that this love has been from the onset of
our teaching program and will always be for you in spite of your
sense of success or failure to assimilate these teachings.  I
can, however, assure you that I have witnessed great progress in
your understanding of the nature of morontia realities as they
have been redefined and applied to your present level of
existence.  So, I would conclude that I am your guide to under-
standing, and I am one who loves you.  
        Tom:  Regarding healing, I'm reminded of a passage in The
Urantia Book saying that material things must be known in order
to be loved and spirit things must be loved in order to be known. 
In healing, the material need is on one end and spiritual
solution is on the other.  "I'll believe it when I see it" as
opposed to "I'll see it when I believe it."  The Father, of
course, is free to place His hand in time as He wills.  As His
representative, it is my job to incorporate His will in my work. 
I know I don't need special incantations or abracadabra; I know
the Father answers the soul's attitude, not the words.  So, as a
lady in a cancer ward said, we all pray for miracles but mostly
they don't happen.  Could you review some of the attitudes that
patient and practitioner must cultivate in order to close the
loop and allow the energy to flow? 
*       Elyon:  Let me first begin to respond by altering your
phrase, that from the spiritual perspective the patient must be
loved to be healed rather than healed in order to be loved.  Even
the flaws, the illness itself, must be perceived with the com-
passion that the Father holds for each.  This circuit of love
from you to the Father and from you to the receiver of this grace
of healing is the essence of what you would perceive to be a
miraculous change in condition.  You are correct in your
perspective that incantations are unnecessary.  They exist only 
as a result of the incomplete understanding of human beings and
the role they play as circuit conduits of the Father to touch the
life of one of His children.  But I must add also that this
process is only successful when the circuit circle is closed,
that being that the one who is receiving this healing power also
encircuits with the Father.  Then the real power is transmitted;
a shortcut is made from the Father to the healed, and the healer
is no longer required.  
        When giving of yourself in this service, your understanding
of this circuit process will bring almost an entire enclosure;
the last connection required is the one between the Father and
the one in need.  Your love, your compassion, will open the
receptivity centers of another.  But as the master was fond of
saying following an episode of healing, let those who are in need
know it is their faith that heals them.  This is the completing
of the circle between Father, healer, and the healed.  Then the
energy flows, and the task is accomplished.  
        Some in need whose faith is weak trust the abracadabras be-
cause they have held to the belief that things must be known in
order to be loved.  These mechanisms are perceived as a means for
knowing, a sort of follow the instructions in order to accom-
plish.  In any effort you make to share this energy that is the
grace of God, provide also the understanding of how the Father
heals.  In a way the healer is a wayshower more than a healing
provider.  The healer in a sense says, "Follow me." A healer in a
sense fills the role of "he who has seen me has seen the Father"
in that the Father and the one in need must make the final
connection; you are transparent in the process.  For those of you
who seek to acquire this ability to bless your siblings through
the efforts of healing as a transparent conduit of the Father's
love are examples of the state of attainment humans can make in
realizing that they, too, are spiritually valuable, belong wholly
to the Father's family, and are rightly privileged to be the
Father's hand at work in the world.  When you seek to be this
conduit, step over the line that divides you with the feeling
that you are reaching toward the Father for the healing, to the
side where you realize you are with the Father providing the
healing.  Share this perspective with the needy one who then will
cross this same line, and the faith they have will heal them. 
Has this been helpful? 
        Tom:  Yes.  Thank you very much.                            Evelyn:  In light of all
that, it is still effective to pray for someone's healing, their
wellbeing, even though you are not in contact with them?  You may
not know what their immediate situation is.
*       Elyon:  Yes, for often the process of healing is quite
complicated.  There are side effects.  The individual in need has
the most important role to play in the faith leap.  However, you
as the one who prays also is increasing your faith levels.  You
are aware that your petitions may be received as assignments by
angels who willingly care for another.  You also can play the
role that these angels play in providing the care.  Prayer for
healing for another often entails the realization that you are
the medicine for their healing.  Prayer can initialize the
actions needed in yourself to provide the comfort and the
compassion that allows for the correction of the complication. 
By all means, always pray for the welfare of those in need be-
cause the entire situation is quite involved.  Much of what takes
place is beyond your abilities to perceive.  The ramifications
can carry over into future lifetimes.  It may appear futile to
pray as a simple, animal origin being for healing of the majesty
of divine grace.  But you have now hardly an inkling of the power
that will be invested in you in ages to come.  This healing
process is only the tip of the iceberg of your abilities as a
personality aligned with the Creator.  It is a significant
process with great implications.  Does this provide some insight?
        Evelyn:  Yes.
        Tom:  When people are sick they first need to be healed and
then sometimes as an afterthought it leads them to the Father
because they have learned to look in both directions for help. 
But if it is their faith that makes them whole, it's like the
person who touched the hem of his garment and he said, "Your
faith has made you whole."  Was that person seeking healing or
did she just want to touch Jesus and as a result experienced
healing?  Someone I know who is perhaps dying, her mate expressed
that she seems to be saying, "I'm the one who is dying.  What do
you know of this?"  Every situation is different.  This is what
I'm running up against.  I don't know what to say.  Maybe my own
faith isn't enough.  Once I get going I'm okay.
*       Elyon:  We have been discussing how it is your faith that
heals.  Those who feel that if they are healed then they will
believe have yet to establish the trust in the Father's grace. 
This is where the healer provides far greater value to the
individual oriented this way by providing knowledge and
enlightenment about faith and trust.  The woman whose faith was
strong to work her way through the crowd to touch the master's
garment trusted that she would be healed, although the mechanism
she conceived of, merely touching clothing, was unnecessary.  Her
enactment of that belief so inflamed her faith that she was able
to receive the complete trust.  Although we have spoken of
incantations, magical tricks, the abracadabras, some individuals'
faith, though present, is dormant.  As the master mixed spittle
and mud to restore sight, it was not the mechanism that healed. 
It was the inspiration of faith that was dormant that brought
healing.  Also, to return to Evelyn's question, the mechanism of
healing that you are knowledgeable about but unaware of is the
activities of midwayers and angels who are the true spittle and
mud.  (laughter.  "They might not like that.")
        Tom:  That's the name of my angels, Spittle and Mud!
*       Elyon:  If there is any hocus pocus it is in reality the
activities of these beings who provide the will of the Father to
the one in need of healing.  
        Some individuals do experience the grace of healing even in
the face of disbelief, for their own Father Presence knows the
potentials in the future of this individual and will allow this
process to take place as merely a minutely insignificant event in
a much grander effort.  It is observed by this Thought Adjuster
that the faith is present and only needs the igniting spark.  But
this is a determination made by the Spirit Presence and is in no
way bearing on the individual's requirement that they be shown
first, for the human's perspective is circumscribed, and the
Thought Adjuster knows more expansively the implications of such
an outcome.  
        I hope this has been helpful as well.  
        Tom:  Beautiful.  
        Mary:  It certainly is mysterious to ponder what it takes to
take someone's faith and inflame it to higher levels.  For
instance, the woman who touched Jesus' garment had faith in this
process prior to touching his garment but wasn't healed until she
acted on this belief.  Her faith led her to this action, but
until she did this action it was not inflamed to the level that
it healed her.  Much of what you said is interesting and helpful,
but it still is quite mysterious. 
*       Elyon:  True indeed.  Such a great observation on your part,
for it is as I spoke of the circle-circuit, she completed that
circle by enacting her faith.  Many times beings like the midwa-
yers are cleared to provide the actual mechanisms for healing by
their superiors but must await the actions of your kind before
they will proceed.  Sometimes the healing is already potentially
present only waiting for the reception.  This can go a long ways
toward igniting that flame of faith, letting another know that
they are but a short distance away from its reception, the
healing which is already present.  This helps to reduce the sense
of great distance between God and the human self.  The Father has
already gone the great distance to be there and but awaits for
your embrace.  
        I am quite pleased that you are all so concerned for your
brethren that you are seeking various methods to help, that
healing is not something you regard as a talent reserved only for
special saints.  All through history such skills of spirit
ministers have been perceived to be only for those of saintly
status.  This is not true.  All the Father's children have access
to the Father's grace.  You are capable of working in service. 
It is your faith rather than special attainments that make it
possible to serve in this way.                              If you are satisfied I will
close today.  
        Evelyn:  We are your students who love you.  
        Tom:  Thanks, Elyon.
them, pause in stillness to experience your faith." - Evanson