[tmtranscripts] Elyon/Tomas Group

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Visualization, Questions
Teachers: Machiventa, Elyon

November 12, 2000

*	Machiventa (Jonathan TR):  Greetings commissioners.  We join you in this
light.  We extend our love.  We express our concern and compassion, and we offer
our energy to the fulfillment of your prayer.
	This visualization you express today is not simply an exercise; it is an
experience.  The human will is creative.  With the Father's blessing you
"reality-ize" your projection to visualize healing, wholeness, harmony,
happiness, and health.  All these things are shared by us.  Each being
throughout
this universe receives a task, a mission, whether it be for the advancement of
oneself in the ascent to Paradise, or for the upliftment of another in outreach
ministry.  Through these opportunities the goal is forecast and a method for
achievement is visualized.  Difficulties are encountered, challenges and
obstacles to be faced and overcome.  It is through this visualization that you
express here today that the end is reached.
	I, Machiventa, came to your world one time.  I had a goal; I had a context
in which I was placed, that, though my fellow melchizedeks and I took great
pains
to choose a beneficial location and to associate with receptive human beings, we
faced a monumental challenge.  Bringing the education of a benevolent Father in
whom you may have faith and trust to a world that solves problems with war
taught
me the importance of maintaining a vision.  Vision is what brings solidarity to
your will when buffeted about by the adversities of time and space.
	What is vision without the unseen, without the unrealized?  The nature of
our course of unfoldment through evolution means that we must be faced with the
unknown and the unreal -- that term I use to emphasize the great potential that
is about you and within you, not the "unreal" of the erroneous or false.
You are
commissioners of light.  You all desire to anchor for the Father in your own
sphere of influence the truth that you have come to understand and to exemplify
to your fellows in need that, even when you do not know the truth, you trust the
truth and will seek the recognition.
	This ability to be faithful with uncertainty rocks the system.  You may
wonder how it could when in your daily life you seem to witness no great
impact. 
But I must reinforce in your minds the understanding that every action you take
as a spirit being has repercussions far beyond your sensibilities, your
abilities
to detect at this time.  Today we look toward the upliftment of friends in
need. 
Throughout eternity we work for the upliftment of all, the needy and the
supplied.
	When I visited your world tents were our structures.  Today you dwell in
houses.  Between my visit and your visit, your culture has been through the
phase
of castles, and I use that term to illustrate how we all are making the
castle of
the Supreme.  It is huge, complex, a maze of chambers, walkways, viewpoints.  No
one individual can maintain this dwelling.  It takes us all to be active, to
tend
to our corners, to our ramps, to our windows.  In this cooperative contribution
the beautiful edifice of evolutionary will is emerging.
	We melchizedeks are assigned to the occupation of education.  That is our
innate ability as well as our local universe assignment, and it is to the credit
of the divine that when you are assigned you are also graced with the
capability. 
You human beings are given a task as well and that is through faith to ascend to
the Father, to use trust and hope as your walking sticks, to clothe
yourselves in
love and light, to put on the shoes of courage and curiosity, to feed yourselves
with the knowledge that reveals truth and truth that reveals the Father.  In so
doing you please the Spirit Mother of the grand universe and you do touch the
soul of the one next to you wherever you are and what ever you are doing.  Life
is busy; the distractions are great; not everyone receives the feedback of the
influence.  Be patient, for, in the review of your Urantia life, you will
observe
the episodes wherein you did impact significantly the future of another, not
necessarily in temporal gain, but in spiritual progress.  Our master, our
sovereign, spoke of the mustard seed.  That little grain, that nugget of
potential, illustrates dramatically how powerful one suggestion, one
embrace, one
smile, can be.
	Urantia will make it to Light and Life; there is no doubt.  It has tumbled
and it has tossed.  It has gone through its dark periods, and it will cycle
as it
advances.  View this cyclical process as the necessary momentum to reach those
stages wherein physical and mental and spiritual dimensions reveal the patterns
of Paradise, the plans of deity.  Be not caught in any incremental step as
completed nor as a defeat.  Every swing up and every roll back down is part of
the advancement to perfection.  How to maintain this view is to visualize, see,
project, conceive.  Paint the picture.  Broadcast the reality as it emerges in
your mind.  Know that it emerges in others as well.  Support one another.
	I finish my comments with one final statement, and that is: love one
another.

	Gloria:  In going through the encircuiting process the physical upheaval
I've been going through has calmed.  Will we have ups and downs in the
encircuiting process, cleansing physically and emotionally?  While I'm calm now
will it start again as I go to another level?

*	Elyon:  Greetings to you, Gloria, this is Elyon.  Let me illustrate the
truth of your inquiry in this manner:
	The ground upon which you walk, when trodden upon continually, becomes hard
and dense, packed, immovable without great disturbance.  In order for that same
ground to give life and nourishment it must be churned.  That stirring, that
plowing, brings it new vitality.  In that base level of earth there emerges
life,
life as a tree.  As this life emerges it, too, faces crucial points wherein
it is
pruned, where the wind wrests its leaves from its branches.  Through this
apparent upheaval new life springs forth and that tree becomes larger, grander;
its roots penetrate deeper.  Without these physical upheavals your soil would
become too packed to provide the framework, the foundation for growth.
	Change is the helpful leverage integrated into human life that you may
accomplish the Father's will of mortal ascension.  I know having been a
terrestrial creature myself in human form, that these upheavals are not always
welcome, that they are stressful.  But even at this stage of your universe
progress you have come to see the benefits gained.
	Gloria:  There's so much illness going on, and this is a different thing,
spiritual, positive.  A discernment will have to be made in the future as
everyone goes through this that it's an actual progression, upliftment within. 
That gives one the stamina to put up with it.
*	Elyon:  Insightful comment on your part, for no particular event is
isolated from any other.  This continuity, when observed, the observation
contributes to the advancement, the growth that you speak of and seek.
	I encourage any comments or questions.

	Jael:  I thank you and all the celestials for giving us all this help here. 
Is there more that we can do?  I work with kids at school.  I feel like a
zealot,
leaping and jumping and bouncing around.  I do want to focus on the Father's
will, but I want to get it going faster.
	Elyon:  My young friend, I must complement you in your ability to express
this special quality of the ordinary moment. This is a lesson all human beings
can learn and learn more of.  The tendency to seek pleasure and special occasion
is good, but it also becomes contrastive to boring or ordinary events.  You
illustrate that everyday events need not be boring, need not be borne with until
a special occasion arrives.  This approach impacts the mind and heart of a
child,
for every child is playful by nature, desires to be jovial, to discover through
fun.  So, I encourage you to continue this, for, when each child reaches the age
when burdens and responsibilities of work and home meet them, this foundational
impression will be helpful for them to meet their daily activities with good
cheer.

	Harold:  How is the progress of the two different approaches to the
teachings of The Urantia Book, one being the Foundation's of slow, steady,
individual progress and the Teaching Mission approach which is more dynamic?
Are
we on track?  Is there a plan working behind the scenes to combine these two
efforts?
*	Elyon:  Yes, indeed, there is.  The foundational approach of slow and
steady is the anchor for progress.  It is the center.  You might say it is the
center of the storm.  Such activities as you illustrate in the mission
effort are
stirring, churning, creating notice, causing attention.  These bring the curious
seekers to the periphery wherein they may enter into the revelation of the
Orvonton Commission.  The nature of this outreach program is that it will branch
out, accommodate or adapt to its environment, and in that process will
absorb and
exchange ideas, conceptual frameworks.  At base camp will be the solid framework
of the Urantia text.
	There is an overall program in place, and it is to no one's fault what
occupation, what job task, they take on within this outreach to Urantia.  The
ones who wish to hold strongly to The Urantia Book and its teachings are
valuable
pillars, for when the seeker encounters them they will have the teachings to
present as they were presented by the revelators.  Those who are running in the
streets, in a manner of speaking, must be able to meet their fellows in a manner
in which that other individual can embrace and thereby be led to the deep
teachings of the book.
	Every one of you, when you discovered the Urantia Papers, was barely
capable of understanding its teachings, was filled with many concepts that you
were adopting or merely trying on or holding firmly to.  Yet, though you may
have
appeared to yourself many years to have been completely off base, you grew into
an understanding of the revelation.  The movement at large is in the same
process.  In order for truth to be alive it must be adaptive, adapting to the
needs of the human souls, not conforming the souls to the structures of a
teaching.
	If I may switch analogies, concrete without rebar is fragile.  There are
those who we highly value who are the rebar of the revelation that give it
strength when the pressures bear in upon this movement that has sprung up from
this epochal revelation.
	Has this been helpful to you?

	Harold:  Yes.  I recently read the "feeding of the five thousand", how it
created a tremendous audience.  When Jesus didn't accept the position they
wanted
him to many of them dropped away.  Is that like the Teaching Mission, creating a
forum for exposing a great many to the teaching of The Urantia Book?
*	Elyon:  Though the master refused the crowd's attempt to elevate him to a
regal position, he did nonetheless perform the miracle, and it was because
of his
compassion for the hunger of the multitudes; in this case it was physical
hunger. 
This episode is a valuable illustration of another what you call one-liner, that
many are called but few are chosen.  To put it another way, you must cast your
net and draw others to yourself.  In that net will come items of no value.  By
stirring the multitudes as he did he created the opportunity for those whose
faith could transcend the spectacular or the miraculous to step further in their
growth and comprehension of spiritual reality.
	I must also append to my comment this notice, that is, that the Teaching
Mission to Urantia extends beyond the confines of the movements that have sprung
up through the course of the revelation printing and dissemination of The
Urantia
Book.  This broad movement must reach to many cultural contexts and
philosophical
structures and religious traditions.  One day this world will have a reality
framework much like the Urantia teachings much as this world today has greatly
adopted the teachings of Jesus.  Those teachings, when Michael was here, today
have undergone modifications and are not exactly as he spoke them.  But they
were
transformative nonetheless.  Such will be the case in the future for  this
revelation.  Flags will wave.  Confetti will fly.  Shouts will be broadcast, and
this will create a tension.  Some among those who take notice will pursue
deeper,
will come into the inner circle of unswayed truth seekers.  I use the term
"inner
circle" in a concentric sense of the gathering of souls who seek the Father and
not in the ex-centric sense of those who are special and privileged while others
are not.  When Jesus sent his apostles out into the various cities, he knew full
well that after only a few months or a few years of training they would not
represent his teachings precisely as he had taught them.  He knew that when they
created their stir, caused notice, those who were truly hungry and thirsty would
seek out the master himself and from him receive those words of light and life.
	Error is overcome by good.  Error can lead to good.  This is why we who are
teachers in this mission are able to come to you to bring an amplification of
truths already taught, already present on your world, knowing we may make
mistakes that you may interpret incorrectly, but each of you continues to pursue
what is true.  You are developing your skills at discernment.  You are stronger
and clearer in your ability to express these spiritual discoveries.
	You have a game on your world; it is the roulette board.  To one who is
beginning their spiritual advancement without a teaching, without guidance, they
are much like the ball racing around at the upper rim.  Over time and with
diligence that ball falls to the center and lands where the soul needs to be for
its spiritual comfort.  Few exit and fly across the room.  More often than not
the soul circles down toward the center.  Each one will fall in its own
slot, for
in the plan of the divine is the desire for diversity.  Rarely will anyone fall
exactly at the center, for there is where God reigns.  We all draw ever
closer to
Him.  In the end it will be the I Am who is the perfect, who is THE truth.  We
will all be ever closer and over time and over super-time ever closer.
	I hope this helps.  I will close our session today and give you my love and
express the love of every one of your personal teachers to you and of your
guardian angels.  I hope with all the years that we have spent together that I
need not say that the love of the Father is there, as well, for you do know this
now.  The Father's love is ever present.  Though the emotions and magnetisms of
the love of human beings may fluctuate, ever trust this core love of the Father
to be there throughout the course of all time.
	Farewell.