Elyon Group 4/19/98

[Rick P. Giles]

April 19, 1998
*	Rantarason  (Jonathan TR):  I have a topic to present to you
this day; it has to do with patience and its application.
	Over the course of the development of civilization on your
world your rulers have made errors which disrupted the evolutionary
process.  This has retarded growth on Urantia.  The very intention to
circumvent the mandates of revelatory procedure and accelerate
progress on this world resulted in its exact opposite, retarded
growth.  All of us today engaged in this mission of uplift are
likewise constrained to the orders of our supervisors regarding what
we may present and what must wait for your growth in order to
accommodate.  So, we have all made the pledge of patience.  However,
this patience is not passive; it is active.  It is a patience which
seeks to accomplish the goal, which considers the time-connected
difficulties.  It is a patience that keenly observes the difficulty
and aggressively applies remedies. 
	Working as you do, conscious of your value to the spiritual
efforts being wrought upon this world for the betterment of all
mankind, you are ever enhanced; you are self-enthused.  This
enthusiasm has brought you much personal growth in light of your
goals to help this world.  This desire to be of service has hastened
your own growth.  You are not impatient to be continually striving
for a better world or a better being that you are.  Evolutionary
creatures are not required to adhere to revelatory mandates.  You are
encouraged to become perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. 
This can be approached with diligence and direct action, certainly
not with complacency.  The patience you apply toward yourself and
your projects and your endeavors at growth should always be active. 
It is when you are engaged in help toward another for their
betterment that patience can and may appropriately contain passivity,
for you have gone beyond your freewill arena and must acknowledge the
right of our Father's other child to decide when a lesson is for them
to adopt.
	So, you will help each of us who is in the role of bringing new
light to this world if you remain busy about the Father's business. 
Then we are able to proceed.  Our patience must apply to the rate
that you proceed.  If you are willing to receive more, we are cleared
to present more.  If you find yourselves satiated and need to reflect
upon prior reception, we are able to wait ages.
	I am Rantarason, and I have finished today.  
	Evelyn:  The question of agondonter status came up at our
Wednesday group.  I understand it as something inevitable; we are
agondonters because we live here.  The other view is that it is
achieved through having faith in the face of rebellion.  Could you
clarify that?
*	Rantarason:  I would express it as a parallel pattern to my
words on patience.  All on this world have the potential to be
agondonters if they apply their faith.  Once faith is active,
agondonter status is a reality.  Not one of you will fail to achieve
this status when you engage your will power in the effort to attain
the Father.  Ignorance does not provide the status.  Conscious
awareness of lack in your world and life of the spiritual values you
hunger for does initiate the full label.  
	On a world of normal circuitry and planetary procedures, such a
status is not even a potential, in a global way.  However, any
individual who finds himself isolated and endeavoring to enlighten
one's understanding will embark upon the agondonter adventure.  So,
here on this world all of you are at the doorstep of this status.  On
a normal world few and rarely do any attain this status.
	Does this clarify?
	Evelyn:  If someone comes from this or another rebel planet and
doesn't activate their faith during this life, but then on the
mansion worlds does proceed with faith and  reach for God, would they
still  qualify for agondonter status? 
*	Rantarason:  Much of this applies to the psychic circle
attainment of the individual, for often creatures of isolated worlds
bring much that is lacking in their growth into the morontia
experience, and the potentials of agondonter qualities are activated. 
But, some individuals have simply approached life without any
consideration and now face the morontia worlds as if they were born
on a world in light and life.  They are starting  so new and so fresh
to their career that there are no qualities that apply to being an
agondonter.
	Does this help?
	Evelyn:  Sounds like it isn't a simple yes or no situation but
depends on individual circumstance.
*	Rantarason:  One of the talents of an agondonter is the ability
to function without the guidance of superiors, to pursue truth on
one's own initiative.  If these traits are exhibited on an
evolutionary world in isolation, then you have that status.  If you
are resurrected without ever applying yourself this way, you have not
set the conditions for being able to function in agondonter roles in
the future.
	On the heels of my presentation to you today, I must restate
that you who value this agondonter quality must be active.  Do not
let the cherished status of agondonter class lull you into thinking
that preventing celestial contact is improving your standing.  To
simply be without the guidance of your superior ascending creatures
does not immediately qualify you.  What qualifies you is your
intended application to live truth in spite of its apparent absence.
	 I hope this has been helpful.
	Evelyn:  It's amusing when people express that fear of losing
their status.  It reminds me of someone not wanting to leave prison
because they will lose their benefits.  Thank you and I appreciate
the lesson on active patience.
*	Elyon  (Mark):   Greetings, my friends.  This is your friend
and associate, Elyon.  I always welcome the opportunity and view it
as a privilege and a pleasure to come among you, my eager and earnest
students.  I would address you today on a shift in emphasis that you
are becoming increasingly aware of.
	As has been stated previously, you all here today are, and have
been, members of the melchizedek training schools.  This has been
accepted by you for some time as a statement of fact.  I would offer
you more complete understanding of the conditions of this role in
which you find yourselves engaged.  As you may have deduced by this
point, your melchizedek friends and brothers are in a very real sense
your immediate custodians, in that they are most similar to you in
your makeup, in your dwelling place, in that they inhabit the same
space that you do.  They are intimately familiar with your history
and have equal familiarity with your destinies.  It is their purpose
in the scheme of the divine plan for them to monitor and oversee,
initiate and coordinate your learning experiences, and they remain
with you constantly and are aware of your fluctuating capacities to
assimilate their teachings.	We, the other teachers including
myself, accept assignment from these melchizedeks and then are given
some degree of latitude in how our assignment is manifested.
	Every being in the stream of progression has an order and a
proper place within this plan to function in the most potent arena of
their expertise.  The melchizedeks, in turn, take their mandates and
directives from their superiors, from Michael, from the Mother
Spirit, from Gabriel and those above them in standing.  We all
realize our position in the affairs of the unfoldment of your world
and function quite interdependently in that we each seek to expand
and increase understanding on your parts on a variety of different
techniques and approaches.
	I bring this to your attention today in an effort to, in a
sense, validate your perception that the resident melchizedeks are,
indeed, largely responsible for your curriculum and the pace at which
your curriculum gets delivered, that outside teachers and personal
teachers often are in council with these melchizedeks and are
directed by this able band of melchizedeks as to the most beneficial
approach to take at any one time.
	As you have noticed regarding all the teachers, all the unseen
celestial friends you have contacted, each one has their own
personality which comes through in their contact with you.  Each one
has a unique approach to delivering the content prescribed.  It has
long since been determined that varying angles of delivery are very
beneficial, as there are many varying angles of reception.
	I say this to underscore the importance of this ongoing
melchizedek plan; you may call it melchizedek schools.  It is,
indeed, the melchizedek course of training.  You may hear more and
more directly from these melchizedeks, as in the past you may have
heard from various individuals who were taking directives from these
melchizedeks.  The fact that this order of beings is extremely
capable of this endeavor is well noted in your text in the reference
to Machiventa who was appointed representative to your world,
representative of the truth of one God.  They are, indeed, quite able
beings to assist you in your ascension career and, perhaps most
importantly, to assist you in laying a good, solid foundation upon
which you will build this career.
	I encourage you to welcome enthusiastically this encounter with
this splendid order of beings, as they are tireless in their pursuit
of bringing about positive changes on your world and within your
person.  They are a model of devotion and sacrifice, as they are ever
willing to redefine their curriculum in conjunction with your
receptivity and desires.
	Do not be concerned that you will not hear from the other
personalities you have become attached to throughout this process, as
we all likewise have become attached to you.  We will make ourselves
available at every opportunity.  But do come into awareness that
being a member of the melchizedek schools means more closely
following the melchizedek curriculum  and being engaged more directly
with these teachers themselves.
	I have no lesson planned, as it was covered most eloquently by
our melchizedek friend.  I just send my greetings and my love to this
group as well as my desire to see us all work more closely together
in times to come.  I have no doubt that this will occur.  I send you
each my deepest sincerity.
	Jonathan:  Regarding the teachers' presenting the melchizedek
plan, we are aware of TR coloring and errors.  We apply truth
discernment to the lessons.  A criticism of the mission is that, if
error is involved, how can we trust the lessons?  We realize that all
of life requires discernment in processing truth.  Now I see it's not
just truth and error but different angles of presentation. 
Melchizedeks are the pattern; the teachers provide meaning to the
pattern.  We TRs and listeners grapple with words.  We are sharpening
our discernment.  All of this transferring is a pattern for
melchizedek presentation.
*	Elyon:  Very well portrayed and equally grasped.  I would put
forward an image I have brought forward before:  There is but one
truth.  When one asks "what is truth?" there is but one truth.  If
you picture this truth as the shining of of the sun, it emanates from
the sun and shines down on your world and upon you.  It is how you
perceive this sun, whether you perceive it directly in your face,
whether you are turned to the side, whether you are in the shade,
whether it has reflected off another surface to you, whether you are
in the dark altogether; these are merely aspects of the single truth
we attempt to portray.  These are the angles I was expressing.  Each
individual will be in a unique position to this sun, but each
individual will get an aspect of this truth, will receive some
reflection of this overall truth, be it directly or indirectly or by
circuitous path.  Nevertheless, we will keep shining this beacon of
truth at you, on you, toward you, by you, around you in an attempt to
so bombard you with this truth that you will get a good tan!
	Jonathan:  You can scorch me once in a while if you need to.
	Evelyn:  I hope you melchizedeks and teachers feel at liberty
to work with us in whatever creative ways you can imagine.  
*	Elyon:  That is appreciated.  As was mentioned earlier in your
discussion, it is also to some degree necessary.  You may feel from
time to time as though you may have stated this before; it is an old
topic not needing restatement by you, but in fact every experience is
a new, fresh experience.  You may take every opportunity presented to
you to restate your commitment to truth, to progression forward in
evolution, to service to those around you, to healing.  Every aspect
that is available to you requires your active participation.
	It is quite often beneficial, not so much for us teachers but
to further align you to your desires, if you repeat your affirmations
of sincerity so that you more clearly direct your thought patterns to
pursue these avenues.  It is also nice as teachers to be made
completely and fully aware of your intentions so that we may have
more license, more liberty to engage you as you so desire.  So, never
feel as though you are wasting your time repeating yourself or
somehow being redundant in your desires to offer recommitment,
realignment, to seek greater purpose, greater understanding.  These
are aspects you get when you pursue in asking.  We welcome this from
you. 
	I would offer one more last addition to this image I provided
earlier.  If you see truth as the radiant light from the sun, then
you may view aspects that are untrue, that are not completely true,
as having been refracted as through a prism.  They may have elements
of truth; they may have originated in truth and have been
subsequently manipulated through intentional or unintentional means
and have been so altered as to no longer be accurate reflections of
this original truth.  This may help in your understanding of relative
truths, that falseness can be a derivative of truth, of truth having
been altered as light through a prism.  It is still the original
light that has been altered to have a different effect and therefore
is no longer an accurate and true representation of the light.
	I just thought I would throw that in today.
	Jonathan:  As listeners to transmissions, knowing that the
light has been passed through a prism, our effort is not to further
distort but to refocus the light for a holistic view of the lessons,
rather than pick apart each point. 
*	Elyon:  Very well said.  Often you find in your discoveries in
regards to the search for truth, even in falseness there are many
elements of truth as in separate and distinct colors emanating from
the prism.  They originated in truth; each one has a fragment, aspect
of truth to it, but each one is incomplete when given its
relationship to the whole.  
	I thank you all for your diligence and your understanding of
the lessons.  I realize your efforts in your attempts to understand. 
Please accept my gratitude for your efforts which enable us to place
another stone on the foundation that enables us to someday build the
glorious temple on top.
	I leave you now.  Thank you.  
	Jonathan:  When we were introduced to you, Ham told us of your
ability with words.  It never ceases to amaze me how you use word
imagery to help us visualize the lessons.  Thank you.