[tmtranscripts] Elyon/Tomas Group 9/10/00

[Rick P. Giles]

Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Various Instruction on Fear
Teachers: Paulo, Lantarnek, Evanson, Elyon, Nebadonia

September 10, 2000

*	Paulo (Gerdean TR):  When you are afraid, you see, you have a tendency to
take matters into your own hands, and many times you panic under fear.  Panic is
chaos.  Panic is mayhem providing no solution.  Giving in to fear is giving
in to
mayhem.  "Fear not" is not only an admonition for the comfort of your soul, but
as a reclamation mechanism of the chaos of which we have intent to stop that we
can begin to be orderly in our procession forward into advancement, into peace
and Light and Life.
	"Fear not" is subjective as well as objective.  For those of you who know
how to "fear not" and what it means to know that there is no real need for fear,
have that security, hence, that peace that passes all understanding that
provides
the pivotal point upon which you can turn toward fighting fear with your faith. 
The only fight you have is the good fight of faith, it is said.  So what is
there
to fight that your faith may live and function except that fear which will turn
you into a tailspin of chaos and disorder.  What purpose would that serve,
having
committed our wills to progress?
	Gerdean:  I can't discern that person's name, but he's finished.

*	Lantarnek (Jonathan):  Greetings to you all.  I am Lantarnek.
	You have read that it is not good for one to be alone, and physically
speaking you are quite aware that a newborn child must receive continual
accompaniment in order to survive.  As one grows it is deemed beneficial
that the
child is introduced to peers and family members such that socialization may
occur, that adoption of mores may occur, that the child would attain the skills
for harmony and interaction.  Likewise you understand that when the soul begins
to grow and a comprehension of spiritual truths starts to lodge in that soul, it
is also good to come into fellowship with other aspirants of Paradise, for this
interaction tends to temper, to cushion, any possibility for fanatical
assumption
or behavior.  This world at this time is alone.  It is deemed important that
Urantia no longer be alone.  So, we are undertaking the great plan of
socializing
this world with other realms.
	There was a time when you were as an infant abandoned at the doorstep, and
rescue measures were taken, and you were adopted and your system sovereign
Lanaforge has done well in caring for you.  Today you are entering into your
schooling, and you are learning how to interact with the other children on the
other worlds.  Right now you are reading bedtime stories, you are hearing about
the other lands, about the adventures of other people, and you are conceiving in
your minds what it would be like to interact and interface with them.  Soon you
will be placed on the school bus and you will enter into the playground of
interplanetary and intra-cosmic association.
	Inherent in human free will is the desire to discover, to invent, for this
is the creative spirit.  It is the method whereby the Supreme can discover
time/space realities of the finite for the Father.  Individuality is value.
The
Supreme is the supreme individual in the finite realm, and the Father wishes
that
this emerging personality discover and create to the maximum limits of
possibility.  But the Supreme must likewise not be alone.  So, in the great plan
is the epic of the Ultimate and the ageless of the Absolute.  This overall
pattern of reality displays itself even on your world where you are
encouraged to
stand on your own as a bonafide spirit entity, all the while associated in the
family of the Father.  Fear disrupts that connection and undermines even one's
individuality.  It undermines the sense of strength of being who you are and
stable as you are.  Out of the chaos came creation.  As you creatively express
yourselves, you are displacing chaos.
	I have determined that I have said enough for the time being.

*	Lantarnek (Gerdean):  With order and with order comes peace, even as the
Supreme provides a home for peace in its evolving perfection.  The order is in
the invention and the creation and the experimentation even as you bring it into
existence in your lives, inasmuch as you are the hands, the voices, the physical
representation of those concepts and ideals which will bring order out of chaos
and advance the light of truth.  The bringing into being of creation involves a
period of turmoil, and this you know is the kernel of truth found in the adage
that there is no growth without conflict, agitation, a stirring up of what
was in
order to bring into being that which can be.   While you build your physical
architectural realities, you pave the way for morontial realities to present
themselves in your creations.  You are thus authoring your contribution to
evolving Godhead reality and socializing these growing realities as spiritual
fruits, actual deity value which enables you to be sufficiently socialized in
your morontial/spiritual sense, essence, such that when you have opportunity to
engage, embrace, the morontial reality, that is at once your extension into the
universe such that you can in turn and in time understand your at-oneness with
other worlds.  You have a reality to offer, to bring, to show, to manifest, to
indicate your help, your wholeness, your heart which is this bridge to other
worlds, other spheres, other planets, that realize to you the knowledge that you
are not alone in the global sense.  Urantia is not isolated in the universe
anymore.  It is being reconnected.  How redundant it is for me to say it is a
process, and you are a part of the process.  We have begun, and we have faith in
you that your courage will help you forge your way into a greater faith in
yourself and in your ability to follow through with your instructions from on
high.
	Thank you.  
	Gerdean:  I believe that was a continuation of Lantarnek.

*	Evanson (Jonathan):  Evanson speaking.  If I could as Jonathan's personal
teacher humbly insert a footnote to Lantarnek's melchizedek-ian perspective, I
would do so on the point of discovery and invention.
	Discovery, though not wholly considered as I will present it, is often an
absorption from the external of something new to you.  Fear of the unknown
can be
displaced with an excitement toward discovery.  How often has the unknown proven
itself to be pacific and warranted no projection of fear at all?  Discovery and
the desire to discover can prevent the rise of fear.  Invention -- and I do not
mean this in the form of fantasy but rather in the creative expression of
yourself in bringing about a new thing or reality -- is the technique
whereby you
may displace the fear of oneself, timidity, cowardliness; for the more that you
practice inventing, creating, building up on your own of something, be it an
object, be it art, be it a system of thought, be it a spiritual character trait;
you discover self worth; you uncover the methods you are best capable of using
and your areas of lack.  Knowing these areas of lack strengthens you; it
does not
give you the sense of weakness having discovered absence of ability.  It
strengthens you for the subsequent discovery of the means and methods that are
needed such that you can proceed in your creative expression.
	You know all to well of Elyon's constant encouragement to be bold.  You
know that over time he has never asked you to be reckless.  His definition of
bold is to be strong, to displace fear.
	End of footnote.

	Angus:  What's the difference between fear of the unknown and fear of the
known?
*	Paulo (Gerdean):  Reasonable and unreasonable fears are those fears which
are based on an understanding of cause and effect and those that are strictly
illusionary.  If we were for instance to use the analogy of counting the cost,
and it was ascertained that in your attempt to make a coup you found yourself
without the necessary mechanical means to bring it about successfully or
effectively, it may cause in you a consternation of awareness of your inability
to pull it off.  Depending upon the stakes, your fears may be aggravated, and
herein is a fear based upon what you know in as much as your reality is a
fact as
well as an existential reality.
	I am that same initial personality who is still unidentified.  I would like
you to observe my name as Paulo as a point of reference but not Paul of Tarsus.
	Fear is a reaction in any event, and it is the reaction in you that is an
issue and not whether or not a fear is reasonable or unreasonable, known or
unknown.  It is an indication of the many variations, the vastness, of the
principle of fear which is in many cases a great motivator.  So, not always is
fear that pivotal turning point that renders chaos an inevitable result.  It is
also that point which proceeds into order and courage and faith.
	Are these words in alignment with your concern, my friend?
	Angus:  If we are fearful of the uncertain, just replacing that uncertainty
with temporal knowledge might alleviate some fear, but there must be more to it
than that.
*	Paulo:  It would seem advisable to be able to identify through your
knowledge the many factors involved in the feeling, but the knowledge may or may
not commit you to a course of action, because you have not had the confirmation
within the Spirit of Truth that flings open the gate for your confident advance
into the adventure, as compared to into the unknown.  It is here that your faith
is a springboard to your eternal career.  It is here that you call into
question,
"Have I faith?"  "What have I faith in here?"  "How is my faith here able to
lead
me into the next frame of reality in this cinema of my life?"
	Angus:  So fear isn't always with us on our evolutionary path?
*	Paulo:  It is a tool of your animal existence.
	Angus:  We will lose that?
*	Paulo:  It will fall away.
	Angus:  Thank you.
*	Paulo:  Don't thank me!  I have nothing to do with it.
	Angus:  Thank you for the information.
*	Paulo:  You are welcome.
*	Elyon (Jonathan):  This is Elyon stepping up to bat.
	The instillation of fear into the human animal makeup had good purpose, for
it is the alarm signal, and the human race has survived due to this alarm
system. 
Now as civilization has progressed fear is redirected into applications that are
not beneficial to the organism.  Let me illustrate:
	Your buildings have fire alarms.  To one who has not experienced a fire,
when the alarm signals such an occurrence, panic ensues.  Hasty flight from the
building occurs.  It is the fear of the unknown.  To the seasoned firefighter
when the alarm sounds, though he may move quickly, he does so orderly, and
addresses himself to the danger at hand.  It is the same alarm.  If I may call
this alarm the original input of fear, this firefighter has experienced the fear
of the known, but it did not cripple his ability to act.  It merely alerted him
to the immediacy of the need to act.  What you all wrestle with today is the
secondary and tertiary impulses that follow after the primary alarm that I am
calling fear.
	That is all from me.

	Harold:  I would like to know more about Paulo and what his function is.
*	Paulo:  I am a teacher.  I am unassigned.  I am affiliated with all of
those things and values that you recognize as part of your belief system.  I am
therefore another coat in your closet.
	Angus.:  Welcome to our wardrobe.
*	Paulo:  You may use me to adorn yourself and to protect you from the cold
of isolation.
	Angus:  I feel safe in saying thank you for that.
*	Paulo:  I graciously acknowledge your hospitality and your superb humanity.

	Harold:  I've been trying to understand personality.  Is there a specific
point where personality becomes part of the human vehicle, or is it something
that is gradually realized?
*	Paulo:  If will you forgive me be a different answer from anyone who
responds inasmuch as all of us have our observation points as to how your
personalities are represented.
	Many of the personalities on Urantia are so distorted as to be completely
illegible.  There are some whose cursive is so clear as to create no
communication error.  It is as you are instructed and enabled by your counsel to
align yourself with that which is most "you" that your personality becomes more
than it was.  Perhaps you who have become superhuman have finally approached
your
personality with some degree of conscientious use thereof.
	While we delight in your personalities as we delight in the cherubic faces
of children, toddlers, it is also true that we delight to enable you who are
more
mature to apply your personality toward more gregarious, external pursuits than
your own charm.  It is an opportunity for your selflessness to be the
reflectivator of the true personality which will reveal itself through your
actions, as you are most effectively representing your personal microcosm of
Paradise pattern through your Indwelling Adjuster, the Spirit of Truth, and the
self-acting aspects of your free will.  Personality thus is a relative
condition.
	Harold:  It's more a process of discovery than growth?
*	Paulo:  Both.  Like the fruits of the spirit, they are inherent in you but
you must prune your branches, if I may use the analogy, to help your own
spiritual development, your own growth.  As you grow in the spirit your
personality is more effectively utilized to reveal our Father.  This is a
part of
your contribution, you see, to master the self such that it is freely giving
itself in order for spirit to profess itself through you.  This is the path to
fusion.  This gives God personality expression, that you have given Him the
opportunity to experience by and through your willingness to share your gift of
life with your Creator, knowing that your Creator has at heart your best
interests as well as His own, a true conspiracy of the benign.  It is alive and
therefore growing, although your will contributes to its development.

	Harold:  Michael has said that, "Where two or more are gathered, there I am
in the midst".  He has also said, "Lo, I am with you always".   What is the
difference in the two situations?
*	 Elyon (Jonathan):  May I field that question?  (Certainly)
	 He addressed his apostles and fellow believers when he made that comment
to assure them of his presence.  It is of record that when you gather in
remembrance of him, believe and know through faith that he is among you, for in
reality he is with you always.  Before the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth it
took greater faith to comprehend the presence of Michael.  With the Spirit of
Truth Michael's presence is effectively omnipresent in Nebadon.  Through the
human experience of social fellowship in a spiritual context one who is growing
in faith can better feel the spiritual presence.  This is why religious
organizations are formed, because of this sense of community, common communion. 
Michael is with every single individual and was assuring those who at that time
were about to face a dark chapter in their lives, the loss of their master, that
he is with them and through fellowship they can mutually recognize his
association with them.
	Does this help?
	Harold:  Yes, it does.

	Tom:  I know the Father is within and the agents of the spirit are without. 
But I've heard recently that the Spirit of Truth is also within.  Is this like a
second adjuster?  How does that function?
*	Elyon:  Let me illustrate this verity to you in this manner:  Imagine
yourself a ball of cotton.  The Father presence is within the filaments.  The
Spirit of Truth is as a dye poured upon the cotton.  It is likewise within;
it is
also without.  It's applied upon and absorbed where the Father is inherently
integrated within your makeup.
	Does this help.
	Tom:  Yes, thanks.
	Elyon:  I am Elyon, for the record.

*	Nebadonia (Gerdean):  And I am Nebadonia, for the record.  I will answer
your question that you have not asked as to how can I be here with you in and
through your reality even while I am at home in Salvington.  I am, as a
result of
our sovereign, an extension of the sovereignty of this universe.  I thus am at
liberty to extend myself through my sovereign lord my reality.  In rights he
extends his reality in and through his universe in and through my many agencies
of angelic assistants.  So, we are one.  As he is, I, too, am here with you and
not as a shadow of any greater reality but as a reality of my own personality.
	Beautiful children of Michael and me, lovely family that you are to us, and
prodigal sons come home, we smile upon your gathering and your efforts.  We hold
you to us in our heart, in the heart of the God of us all, that you may work His
wonders in His mysterious ways in and through your ministry to others.  Be at
peace in your efforts, my sons and daughters.  Boldly go, indeed, into your
arenas and foster hope in the hearts of those who hold themselves outside this
embrace which is open to all who will come.  We will lead you.  We go with you. 
We have faith in you as you have in us.  The Universal Father, Eternal Parent in
Paradise, is mindful of us, aware of us, in love with us, and will deliver to us
that which we need to bring about His will for us and for His worlds.
	Be of good cheer.