Elyon Group 11/29/98

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission
Topics: Renewal and making progress
Teachers: Lantarnek, Elyon

November 29, 1998
*	Lantarnek (Jonathan TR):  Lantarnek here.  I welcome you to another episode
of encouragement, of reflection, and of promotion.
	It is difficult for many beings, not just mortals currently in physical
form, to maintain a head of steam, so to speak, when struggling to attain new
levels, when striving to sustain current levels.  We often do repeat our lessons
for this very reason, much as you repeat your breakfast, lunch, and dinner
nourishment cycles, that a lesson once given, though registered in the intellect
and known in a statistical sense for having been stated and perceived,
spiritually you benefit from recurring presentations and repeated applications. 
I address you today on the topic of renewal.
	During your ascension you will oscillate through many cycles of growth and
rest, ever climbing higher.  Each time your rest will be in comparison  to prior
levels; what beforehand was a difficult level to reach and maintain yet now is
your restful cycle.  Subsequent to an attainment there follows the fine tuning
and adjusting of your initial realization.  This cultivation and pruning, this
nurturing, strengthens the original insight or experience, yet these minor
adjustments do not appear to have the same impact that the original awakening
had.  But as you know through many undertakings in your life on all levels,
these
finer adjustments really improve, actually polish, the first attainment, the
first endeavor.
	Although it is not of great benefit to simply foster enthusiasm and
excitement for its own sake, its own end, I encourage you today to think of the
process of renewal when you are feeling stale or stagnant.
	Much like climbing a flight of stairs, let us picture your attainment of
Paradise and the struggle to do so as giant steps.  When you reach the nose of
the first tread you can see the nose of the next and even slightly the nose of
the higher beyond.  Yet as you traverse across the tread toward the riser to
climb to the next level, that viewpoint is obscured.  Here in this level, growth
cycle, one can face doubts; one can become confused, lacking the clarity of
perception from the original view.  Renewal is simply placing yourself in
spiritual perspective back at the nose of the tread where you can, with your
faith and with your trust, re-perceive those higher levels once faintly
glimpsed. 
This provides strength and stamina before you make your next strenuous climb to
actually attain that hoped-for ideal and goal.
	Renewal is a refreshment of a status level already accomplished by you.  It
gives you enthusiasm anew for something which you already have struggled to
accomplish.  For those of you who practice music, this is much like returning to
a song you know well after having spent time to perform one you are just
beginning to learn.  It renews your sense of ability.  It invigorates your sense
that you can accomplish something difficult, for it is the very demonstration of
accomplishment beforehand.
	I salute you all who review your lessons from all of us, for this renews
you regarding prior presentations by us.  It demonstrates that even a lesson of
many years ago can still be applicable to you today, can restore your sight to
the higher levels you seek. 
	In my closing I would once again restate that your time in stillness is an
act of renewal.  It is actually far more important in this regard than it is a
method for higher attainment.  It is a time of refreshment, for reflection, for
daily life is the arena wherein you face the new hurdles and climb the new
mountains.  Thank you for hearing me today.
	Mark:  Those were beautiful words on ascension.
	I wonder at the relative difference of one of our caliber of spiritual
ascension as compared with fusion.  I always thought it beyond our grasp for
this
life.  Is fusion a level tenfold, one hundred-fold, one thousand-fold,
beyond our
accomplishments to this point?
*	Lantarnek:  The ability to fuse with the Father's Fragment is, in the scale
of Paradise ascension, right at your fingertips.  This statement is most true
subsequent to your having made your eternal decisions regarding the Father and
eternal life and your service for Him and your growth toward Him.  But like my
reference to polishing and adjusting, once you have this decision behind you,
there is a whole new array of adjustments that you must undergo.  These are
quite
numerous; in a sense it is like this:  Prior to your supreme choice you can
liken
your spiritual progress to our oft-quoted analogy of the jigsaw puzzle where all
the parts are in the box and all the potential is there for this attainment. 
Your supreme decision is equivalent to spilling the pieces out on the table.
Now
begins a great process of assembly.  Yet, without opening the box, none of the
adjustments could be made.  To have lifted the lid is the most important thing
you could have done and begins the inevitable attainment of fusion, that of
assembling, perceiving and, in this case, becoming that big picture.  
	Mark:  I perceive that we in this room have taken that step of opening the
box.  Am I correct that to race toward fusion is not necessarily the goal? 
There's no real hurry.  Putting together the puzzle is our task.
*	Lantarnek:  Yes, fusion is an event of eternal consequence, and its time
orientation is insignificant in regard to the eternal ramifications.  Your
diligent and careful work in cooperation with the Father makes the event nearer
at hand.  Your hankering for, your intense desire to fuse, will in no way bring
you any closer to the event itself.  Your alignment with truth, your love for
beauty, and your living goodness will go far greater in bringing about the event
than to pray for and wish for that event itself.
	In some ways the assembly of the puzzle has many events of enjoyment as you
begin to discern fragments of the picture, and clarity begins to dawn on you as
to how it is going to finalize.  Those are multiple, and those are quite
fulfilling.  The actual completed picture signals a completion.  After your
fusion, you will be faced with a completely new horizon, one that you are more
greatly endowed with divine power to attain, but one that, though rising out of
your past experience, is now based upon an entirely new reality, your union with
God.  This you could liken to returning to your game store and walking aisles in
search for which of the many puzzles you will open next.  To seek the Father
before your union with His Fragment is a different undertaking than will be the
undertaking subsequent to fusion.  You will note that that undertaking stretches
over far greater periods of time than the one prior to fusion.  This is why I
tell you your fusion is at your fingertips. 
	Mark:  Thank you.
*	Lantarnek: You are welcome.  In my capping off my little discussion I would
remind you that the Spirit of Truth is the handrail that will guide you all the
way to the head of the stairs.
*	Elyon  (Mark):  This is your friend Elyon, and I would add but little to
the words of your Melchizedek instructor.  What I would add is the perspective
that you who are aware that you are assembling this spirit puzzle, that you are
actively engaged in the construction of this image before you with intent and
with purpose, are indeed making great strides for the very reason that you do
this with purpose, you do this with certainty and you do this with faith.  There
are many who do not yet possess this perspective of understanding to realize
that
they are indeed engaged in this process and that there are levels of successive
growth involved in this process as you are aware.
	When you first start with your puzzle it is much like one designed for a
child.  As you succeed in completing your task, you would then move on to a
puzzle of greater challenge, one designed for an adult.  If you persist, you may
be challenged by a puzzle created for an expert.  It is your choice; it is your
pace, and you are in awareness of what you are about.  Even though there may be
times of uncertainty and darkness when you fumble for the pieces, and you are
uncertain of their relationship to the whole, you are aware that you are piecing
together this image of reality, this image of the greater whole.  Therefore you
press forward even in misunderstanding and darkness; you try again and again
until you find the piece which you are looking for that allows you to link these
patterns together.
	As you have seen in your exercise, if persistent, you will find this piece. 
It is there right before you.  It is simply at this time not uncovered, not
examined thoroughly enough to be utilized by you, but it is there.  It is
contained in your box. There are no missing pieces to thwart you.  It is
simply a
matter of persistence and faith that you will in time assemble the entire image
and meet with certain success.
	It is often hard to provide adequate perspective to those involved in the
process, which is why we attempt so many times to refer to your progress in
relationship to your previous state and as relates to your potentials.  We are
attempting to act as your cheerleader squad, constantly reminding you of your
accomplishments and luring you towards your accomplishments just ahead of you. 
You are indeed making excellent progress, and there is, of course, much more
that
lies ahead of you.  We will remain on your side cheering for your every
advancement and attempting to make you aware of these advancements as they occur
so that you can be refreshed in these accomplishments and rejuvenated in these
achievements.
	Remember when your current puzzle is completed you will smile with
affection and appreciation at your accomplishment, and you will realize the many
steps you have taken to accomplish this.  You will rest on your laurels for a
time, and then you will seek greater challenges.  You will open and dump another
box.  We will be there to assist and to acknowledge your steps as it is also
very
exciting for us to see the great changes which occur when you exercise your
abilities.
	I have no more comments for the day and would retire unless otherwise
instructed.
	Mary:  I would like to note how your and Lantarnek's words tie into what
Tom related, how his friend's position didn't appear too good until you expand
your view to include how far he has come.  We should not only apply the
principles to ourselves but use them in our relations with others to help us
treat each other kindly.
*	Elyon:  Our lessons are meant to be helpful to you both individually and
personally at the time that they are delivered, and they also carry another
level, a level of examples that we would wish you would adopt toward those who
are behind you in this evolutionary process.
	You note that we repeatedly and often praise you for the advancements you
make.  We are never hesitant to accommodate you at the level at which you
want to
engage us.  We are always offering the positive alternative to your situation. 
We exercise great patience with your attention spans.  These are all qualities
which we would hope would rub off on you as teachers in your realm. To
accommodate those who are in your sphere of influence, to look to the good
in any
given situation, to reach and teach at any given level you are sought, and to
always provide a positive and loving, and accommodating perspective, this does
far more than any lesson, any message, any words that may happen to pass across
your lips.  Your attitude in acceptance, love, tolerance, patience says volumes
more than your potential solutions or steps to alleviation of unfortunate
circumstances of those around you.  So, I am pleased you have made this
association.  We are always pleased when we hear of the conduct of one of our
young students being exemplary, as was shared earlier today in the sharing
session.
*	Lantarnek (Jonathan):  Lantarnek speaking again.  I would like to elaborate
a little more on this puzzle analogy. 
	Picture in your mind the classic shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece, and now
view that as your being and view it as, likewise, cut up into many, smaller
puzzle pieces.  Some of them are provided by the Father and some you, due to
necessity of evolutionary growth, must actually create for yourself to help form
this puzzle.  When you are complete you will notice that you mesh with others.
	You spoke this morning of resurrection in special groups.  You are also
aware that the angels aspire to bring into association kindred spirits to
function together.  Much of your friendship and bonding at this time is because
you are beginning to fit your puzzle together with another's puzzle.  You have
clustered yourselves into a group.  But each of you is incomplete.  There will
come instances when you will meet another partial puzzle piece and find you
cannot connect.  This may be due to your own incompletion or theirs or both.
The
spiritually progressive individual realizes there is no need to call off a
relationship but rather to continue to love and to understand the momentary
differences, and in the settled age of grand universe light and life all meshing
will have completed itself.  Though that other individual who may not join you
side by side, will join you in the overall assembly and will take his or her
place in that brotherhood picture.  
	Mark:  In an attempt to be more aware, I think this group has the potential
to function as one of these working groups.  If it is required to be in
awareness
of this, then I offer that awareness.  I offer the willingness and desire to be
involved in a group like that, and I think I speak for everyone.
*	Lantarnek:  I salute you in your perception for two reasons.  One, the
milestone of knowing that you have before you pieces that are assemble-able into
a portion.  The other is that recognition where you understand that you are a
portion in assembly and can now, as a group, lock in, interconnect, with other
portions.  Your awareness precipitates new undertakings for you and us.  This
will magnify also as other conclaves of personalities rise to and attain this
awareness.  
	Thank you for making that statement. It is significant.
	Mark:  It is sincere, as well.  May we seek the challenges particular to a
working group working in harmony.
*	Lantarnek:  So be it.