Elyon 3/30/97

[Rick P. Giles]

March 30, 1997  Easter
*       Elyon (Mark TR): [paraphrased:  Greetings.  I appreciate
that you make it a priority in your lives to attend these weekly
rendezvous.]  
        Once having seen, tasted, witnessed, the tides of advancing
spirituality, one seems no longer content to paddle around in the
slow waters.  The feeling of riding a crest of a spiritual wave
is indeed exhilarating and at times even profound.  This force
can be addictive in a sense, and having participated in this it
is unlikely any of you will ever again choose to be content with
simply floating along in life.  You all here today have chosen to
be actively engaged in spiritual pursuits, to the end of pursuing
your individual destinies.  When you are perched atop a spiritual
crest, however briefly, from this vantage point you may look
around and see the potentials around you.  You may become
infused, invigorated with new enthusiasm to propel you forward to
augment your pursuit of spirituality.  True, these spiritual
crests are inconsistent, but you have come to realize that they
can be counted on for their regularity in your lives.  
        All of us enjoy participating with you on any day of
spiritual significance as you observe Michael's resurrection.  We
find days of this nature to contain the potentials to harbor a
spiritual crest in the waves that flow around you.  A sense of
heightened awareness, a sense of keener perception encompasses
days in which large numbers of your kind determine to focus
however briefly on spiritual concerns.  We will gladly accept any
day of this nature regardless of its strict accuracy to fact;
rather we are interested in intent.  It is not important to us
that you choose the exact day to remember a significant event as
that you whole-heartedly choose to participate in this day.  I
request that you observe today exactly what I am referring to,
this keener sense of spirituality, this more complete glimpse of
reality, and that you throughout the week realize that this is
potential throughout your existence.  You choose to denote a
particular event as significant, therefore your senses are
heightened, your awareness is increased, your potential benefits
are more profoundly present.  This same sense of participation
and awareness is available to you on any other day on any other
week.  It is merely your adjusting.  It is always more potent and
powerful to join together with others who are similarly focussed,
and you will today enjoy the benefits derived therein.  But I ask
you to imprint and remember this sense of heightened spirituality
you feel on your chosen holy days and attempt more frequently to
return to this sense that you experience on a day like today. 
        We, of course, are always happy with any time either
structured or unstructured you choose to devote to your spiritual
progress and are always eager to be of assistance to you and
those around you at all times.  There is clearly only one
direction for everyone involved in this group.  There are, how-
ever, many paths.  Fear not that any path chosen will lead you
away from the ultimate direction.  This is no longer a
significant potential.  As was stated earlier, it is merely in
your lap, it is up to you to walk the path to determine at what
pace you tackle your path.  How many stops or side trips you may
choose to make is entirely in your hands.  We will all arrive at
our point of destination similarly and differently.  
        You would find it amusing if you could but witness the
spectacle of observers and onlookers to your focused meetings. 
It is of great interest and concern to many the outworking of
this teaching mission and of your own spiritual development.  
        I now would suggest that you engage some other personality
at your desire as there are numerous in attendance to be of
assistance.  I wish to leave with you my fond regard for all of
your efforts and for each one of you individually.  I have many
different relationships with you: companion, teacher, shepherd,
sheep, leader, and follower.  I enjoy these immensely and look
forward to the growth experiences we have before us.  I will now
open the floor for questions or simply comments or observations. 
We are interested in all of these. 
        Sheila:  We have known each other for a few years.  Are you
participating in my projects at this time?
*       Elyon:  We teachers are in a sense all participating in the
entire process of the teaching mission.  We hold what you would
term general meetings in which we offer each other suggestions
and support.  We discuss at great length our different groups and
our different individuals.  As you may be aware we have suggested
that there is a surplus of teachers available for any sincere
ascender who desires one.  But there is also a hierarchy, as sys-
tem of delegation and authority to which each of us must be
responsible.  I myself must answer to others as well as be
consulted by others.  Therefore I am keenly aware of your
participation with your teachers.  I recognize your efforts, and
you are among those who I include in my praise for your efforts. 
        Sheila:  Thank you, Elyon. 
        Jill:  Could you comment on the experience that Sheila and I
are having simultaneously of coming into contact with brothers
and sisters who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia?  Could
you offer guidance on our roles, the gift for us as well as for
them?
*       Elyon:  Indeed you are correct in your terminology of gifts
available on both sides.  These troubled individuals who are
being directed into your presence are in desperate need of a
sturdy footing, particularly a spiritual footing.  The greatest
gift that you could provide to these individuals would be in the
form of exposing them to the love of the Father which you have
come in contact with in your lives, to providing these
individuals with a sanctuary wherein they are loved, they are
respected and acknowledged.  These are things they are in
desperate search of.  You as facilitators may act as channels to
guide and direct the Father's love so as to saturate them when
they are in your presence.  They will respond to this outpouring
of love in many ways that you will not be aware of.  They will
return to you occasionally for another drink from the well.  You
will present stability and strength which they desire.  I commend
you for your earlier statements of desiring to open yourselves up
as channels for these individuals, for that is how you might do
the greatest good, attempting to step out of the way, as it were,
and simultaneously be there for them.  Their gift to you is the
chance at being this conduit, at providing this service to these
starving individuals.  It is not altogether frequent that these
potentials exist.  You are gifted with an increased frequency of
these potentials.  Also remember that the more you give to these
individuals, the more is made available to give.  You do not have
to feel as though you are depleting your personal reservoirs to
accommodate this purpose, rather by accommodating this purpose
your personal reservoirs will be overflowing.  Therefore it is a
dual purpose that you both benefit from these encounters in which
you desire to be of service to one of your brothers or sisters,
and they provide the opportunity to do just that.  Indeed,
consider yourselves lucky.  
        Jill:  Thank you very much.  Your words of confirmation
brought tears to my eyes.  It's quite a feeling to be in
unselfish service when you are in unfamiliar waters.   
*       Elyon:  Your efforts bring spiritual tears of joy to my
heart and to those around me who witness you, and  all of you in
this group who reach out, however small.  We are so impressed
with your efforts at this level; it cannot be overstated.  Each
one of you presents the Father with your jewels regularly.  We
witness these, and we are likewise overjoyed at your jewels. 
        Jonathan:  We all experienced the departure of the 39 people
in a spiritual group who chose to ascend.  In hearing about them
I found some interesting differences but also some parallels in
their teachings to The Urantia Book and to the Teaching Mission. 
One difference is that their efforts are directed toward crossing
over to the higher realms.  We have been taught that with the
coming of the Melchizedek schools some will be asked to remain
here.  What emphasis would you like to place on the duration of
our time on this world? 
*       Elyon:  From a cosmic perspective it makes little difference
the exact conditions or time of your departure from one classroom
to the next.  However, when you are in a particular classroom if
you are engaged in unhealthful pursuits, fear, doubt, worry, con-
cern over potentials; if you harbor many of the traits which are
considered deterrents, then you are no longer effective in your
classroom.  If you believe firmly that you are no longer func-
tioning effectively and able to learn and grow at a given level,
you may project yourself to the next level assuming that once
there your doubts, fears, lack of faith may be so altered as to
free you, and there you will finally be able to grow.  You here
today differ from individuals surrounded and engulfed by doubt
and fear in that you have opened your souls and minds to the
available potentials around you.  The potentials are existent in
either classroom; it is the student who determines the level of
access to these potentials.  Some individuals have been so
dominated by doubt of anything good coming from this classroom,
by fear of impending discomfort in this classroom, by longing for
an easier road to take, that they throughout time have chosen to
access the next classroom.  I say to you here today that this is
not necessary.  It will indeed transpire at some point.  However,
the benefits one can derive from this classroom are many. 
        Another aspect of this is the desire to serve.  It is a
self-centered, self-perpetuating attitude to wish to be all that
you can be regardless of all those around you; it is the higher
spiritual attitude to desire to be all that you can be while
actively helping all those around you to be all they can be.  It
is indeed the higher spiritual path to choose the latter.  All of
you in this room have made that choice.  You desire your own
spiritual growth; this is as it should be.  However, you also
desire to be of benefit and help to those around you while you
are in this classroom.  Does this illuminate for you?
        Sheila:  Yes, it does.
        Jonathan:  Yes.  I appreciate your comments on service and
ministry.  The master in all the intensive training of the
apostles was always bringing them face to face with...
(interruption by the phone)
*       Evanson (Jonathan):  I am Evanson, and I would speak to you
as one engaged in a teacher's position of an instructor for an
individual and therefore focus my message to you as individuals
that you are. 
        Let us take the imagery of this holiday and work with it. 
It is of supreme importance, the ascension of the master and his
attainment of sovereignty, and we all praise him in his efforts
and the resulting gift to this universe that he became.  Your
holiday also marks the emergence of life in its renewing cycle of
spring.  Your holiday symbols reflect this renewal of life, this
rebirthing.  Your ceremonies depict the search for treasures and
the reception of gifts.  I perceive you understand that my
comments to you are along the order that you have many exciting
potentials to discover.  It is your curiosity, your drive to hunt
for them that will bring you success and cause these potentials
to emerge.  When you are in a cycle of downswing and you feel
disconnected, a winter of sorts, a crucifixion of sorts, look
beyond the condition to the bright resurrection of your renewed
aspiration and your upward climb.  Know that even as you restore
your enthusiasm you are not repeating  a cycle but unfolding new
potentials each time, just as when the master completed his
bestowal he emerged with potentials far transcendent of even the
significance of leading one mortal life.  As our teacher Elyon
spoke last week about perceiving your shortcomings as indicators
of greater potentials in the future rather than as indications of
limits in your ability, make each day your Easter Sunday when you
feel like you have been locked behind stone doors.  These are....
(?)  Thank you.
*       Rantarason (Sheila):  I am Rantarason.  I greet you today
with a brief reminder of the simplicity of asking.  As it is
normal for you to contemplate your thoughts, your ideas, your
wishes, your dreams, we have noticed that at times this can go on
for days.  I would remind you at this time, whether it be five
minutes or five days, we are here to contemplate this along with
you by your merely asking the question, what do you think?  What
shall I say?  What should I do?  How can I perceive this
differently?  And, of course, step two is listening.  You are
well aware that we are not here to force upon you answers but to
simply share with you ideas, perceptions, and reminders of how
the Father would approach this.  Many times this can be done with
conversation, many times by your environment around you; perhaps
answers can come from the next person who comes in contact.  This
is where observation and listening comes in handy.  You seem to
be quite occupied with the events of your day, perhaps with
asking for help within a short time of your conscious awareness
of your ideas, your wonderment.  This can be handled, taken care
of sooner so that more time can be focussed upon joy, laughter,
love.  In your asking you can expect answers quite quickly.  This
not only has to do with our sincere cooperation; it also has to
do with the clarity of circuitry, the opening of newer, more
clear and adaptable circuitry that is opening your way
constantly.  You possibly could be perceiving things happening
much faster now.  It could be quite productive for you to simply
ask right away so that you may get upon the next and then the
next and then the next.  All of these are tools of growth,  tools
of trust, tools of faith, that which you carry with you always. 
I would ask that you perceive the greatness of today with you as
a tool carried in the toolbox of your heart, of your soul, of
your mind, to be used daily.  When you need a tool and you stare
at the toolbox contemplating opening; you stare at the tools,
contemplate which ones to use.  Asking can be the first tool that
is used in all your efforts.  From there we will be most pleased
to guide you as to how to use it or perhaps the use of another
tool which is contained in your toolbox.  
        You are the second greatest tool which we have, the first
being the Father.  We carry you, as we do the Father, with us
always and are most grateful.   I thank you for your time.  I
send you my light. 
        John:  I have a request.  You've talked about the stillness. 
Kids are playing.  We live in the middle of the city.  I pray the
Father and I ask you to please teach us stillness where we live
with the noise, the chaotic pace of society, how to find
stillness.  We think that if we retreat to quiet places that is
where stillness is, but I think we have to be able to do this
with our little ones around us.  Any comments?  
*       Rantarason:  Is there not noise and chaos around as we
speak?
        John:  Yes, that is what I was noticing.  
*       Rantarason:   This is what we call focus.  It is your
ability to focus upon that which you determine to be beneficial
for you at that time.  This takes practice as does all conscious
efforts.  And if you continue to believe you need solitude for
focus, I am most sure you will be given an opportunity to find
out differently.  Your world is of constant movement, change, and
chaos.  This will only become more.  
        Daniel:  Our minds are still active when it's quiet.  There
is nothing more noisy than our minds.  
        Tom:  Also, in this noise there is joy.  
        Jonathan:  You mention focus as an aspect of stillness.  We
hear of the passive side of receptivity.  I'd like to ask of the
teachers to address some of the active, as well as the more pas-
sive, elements of stillness practice.  
*       Rantarason:  You have been conditioned to understand that
being connected to the circuitry is something you must work at
and try hard for, while the opposite is true.  This is a normal
process for you now.  It is your conditioning that you must have
silence.  The opposite of this is true now, the change in your
perception, of your ability to perceive can be changed now.  Know
that circuitry is connected; your ability to hear and understand
is that which is natural, not that which you must work towards. 
Sifting away these blocks provides you with proof of this.  Know
that in chaos you have not lost anything.  Know that we shall
work daily towards your understanding of your abilities that are
natural.  Expect chaos and noise for this is of great training to
allow you to know the greatness of your abilities to know and
hear and see and feel all of us who so lovingly and impressively
are willing to assist.  This can be achieved by asking.  I hope I
have been of help.
        Group:  Thank you.  Very much so.  *                                 Rantarason:  I now
put you in my toolbox as I carry you along with me today and
always.  I thank you.