[tmtranscripts] N. Idhao TeaM 11/21/01

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Urantia is Growing
Teachers: Elyon

October 21, 2001

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, this is Elyon, and I will take the
opportunity to portray an image using wood.
	There are many qualities of this material of the vegetable kingdom that are
contributory towards its beauty as a material used by humans, and many of these
qualities are the result of stress as well as normal growth experience.  For
instance, there is the effect of curling in grain that when a particular tree is
milled, refined, this grain pattern appears beautiful to the eyes, yet it was
stress that brought on this alteration of growth.
	Also you are aware of knots, the vital limbs that bring nutrients to the
tree, that connect to the trunk that cooperate with the entire organism.
Yet the
knots are often interference in the construction of an object.  It is
interesting
to note that a knot is extremely hard and yet, when a plank is refined,
milled to
smaller dimensions, this extremely hard area creates a great weakness, for it is
at the knot that the board may break.
	So, the meaning?  Your planet as well as individuals on their own are
experiencing many stresses that can alter the growth pattern.  Much as a curly
grain beautifies an object that is built from that wood, your soul takes on
patterns of beauty resulting from the stresses of your physical life.  This is
why one of faith is able to continue the pursuit of divine goodness in spite of
evils and calamities that take place in life.  Knots are points in soul
development where nutrients have been injected, where the soul has reached
out to
better grasp what is reality.
	Over time everyone of you has sprouted a new limb in order that you may
draw in spiritual nourishment.  This may be in the form of the study of a new
philosophy, the pursuit of a different religion, the practice of a new spiritual
technique.  Eventually as you grow the limb drops off as you put forward higher
limbs, reaching closer to the true source of your nourishment.   What remains is
the knot of that historical time when you pursued your growth and received your
sustenance.
	While I would not judge a knot as a defect, it can be if one does not
consider the proper placement, use, of this remnant of your past for enhancement
of your present.  What I am seeking to present is that all souls are in
possession of many knots: philosophical, religious, conceptual knots that can
become points of brittleness, locations of hardness.  They display your history,
but they can also interfere with the clarity of your development.  No one is
100%
free; no one has pure, clear grain.
	Today your world is discovering with greater impact the presence of many
knots of the tree of Urantia.  These are the ideologies around the world.  As
this world is being milled and groomed for Light and Life, these knots are of
necessity being exposed and must be properly considered in order to complement
the end product of Light and Life and not interfere with sound structure.
	There is great compassion being expressed at this time during these
episodes that you are aware of, for the struggles that you are undergoing are
critical in the progress of this planet.  A good parent, a great coach, are both
aware of a child's or an athlete's edge, of training that point where that
individual is capable of grappling with new confrontation, new struggle.  It is
hard to watch one undergo these trials when it is observed that individual
is not
yet quite ready.  The level of difficulties being faced on Urantia today is due
to the fact that Urantia is not quite ready to grapple with the issues.  This is
the Correcting Time.  You are being trained to bring insight to everyone you
have
a chance to give your insight to.  It is time to step forward, to give what you
have gained, to broadcast the new seeds of the new era for Urantia, for the
forest must be re-grown with new stock; the older patterns must die away in
order
that this planet may transcend the pitfalls it continually heads toward in
conflict resolution and problem solving.  How will this be done? but that those
who have raised their hands to be disciples and apostles of truth step forward,
be bold, and be about the business of spreading the kingdom of spiritual
righteousness, truth discernment.
	Urantia has undergone great upheavals over many centuries and millennia. 
This, while inconvenient throughout the process of the planet's development, has
proven that, as in a fine work of craftsmanship and carpentry, that Urantia will
stand as instrument quality, in the end a fine display of beauty resulting from
the legacy of the past.  There is great hope for this world.  Make this your
message to those in these trying and uncertain times.  Help anyone to look above
and beyond the problems of the passing hour.  Point out the enlarged
perspective. 
It need not be a long treatise on the cosmic significance of the planet's
development, rather, draw forward for illustration how that individual you are
seeking to provide ministry has in the past been able to see the forest from the
trees, to clearly understand during the quandary what the ideal and the goal was
at that time and that may be again applied to these current pressing issues.
	  I will take this moment to address your discussion of free will.  This
aspect of personality is the most remarkable and unmistakingly unfathomable
factor throughout all of the universe.  As you know, the Father Himself is
absolute volition, therefore it becomes nearly impossible for any limited
creature to understand the depth, the variability, of this quality of
personality.  This is a prime reason why we are given the mandate to not
interfere with free will, for we are not adequately able to override free will. 
For that matter, it is virtually impossible.  There can be controls,
manipulations, enticements, but ultimately free will chooses.  In compassion the
human heart reaches to the divine seeking solution or resolution to the ailments
of another soul.  All the while you know that that individual in need must
desire, must freely choose, remedy.  It is important that you do pray for
one who
even as yet has not freely chosen to receive divine grace, healing, for
solutions
to problems.  Not that you would in anyway attempt to alter the freewill pattern
choices of that individual, but that you also have free will.  You have the
power
to express your desire, and you have a loving, merciful, divine Parent who is
ever willing to step forward and minister to any child in need.  That makes two
out of three in this issue.
	You are aware of the master's technique of whetting the appetites of others
for truth, and this is the best, most effective technique for encouraging
one who
needs healing.  Create that thirst, spark the fire.  There are many ways you can
do this, as you have already enacted.  Should you find yourself at a loss as to
what technique you may apply to whet the appetites of your associates for truth,
recall the methods I and my associates have used to open your minds to stimulate
you to reach inward, to reach upward, for greater insight.  You need not concern
yourself with remembering how I may have presented to you new meaning.  Trust
your intuition to have grasped and secured in your soul the understanding of how
you may approach encouraging another to step one more step farther in their
unfoldment.
	We have come a long way in our association.  I am always delighted to
return to previously discussed topics, for I know that as you grow you approach
these same subjects with new vision and understanding.  At the same time the
years have passed, and you are more accomplished in managing your philosophy and
grappling with the morontia impingement upon your souls.  I am amply rewarded in
being able to approach you with subjects which we would not have addressed early
on in our assignment.  Unlike fashion, matters of a spiritual nature never
go out
of date.  What you gained today, what you gained yesterday will have application
on the spheres of Havona.  Your investment today is profound.  It may not appear
so at this level of your unfoldment.  It may seem that your grasp of cosmic
reality has little to no application in your Monday through Friday world.  But
you know the master has shown you can apply your enlightenment at any point
throughout your day to any situation.  You know you are laying your treasures up
in heaven, that your rewards will be great; your investment will return
hundreds-fold.  Be not discouraged by the apparent chaos, upheavals, and
conflicts that you witness at this time.  Do not dis-invest for fear that all
things are crashing.  You have the mining rights to the greatest riches of the
universe, and those riches indwell you.  Fluctuations in your external world
have
no lasting effect upon the wealth you possess within.  They may reveal to
you new
aspects of this divine goal, but the treasure is yours for eternal keeping.
Take
this gold and share it with your fellows.  Help them to discover this same
treasure just within.  This is the most critical value that all beings upon
Urantia could learn in order to solve many of its personal, national, and
international crises.
	I would be delighted to hear your comments and take your questions.

	Evelyn:  You are saying be bold and speak out, yet I balance that with how
much should you take your preaching to the multitudes?  How much should they
come
to you?  There aren't multitudes coming to me!  But there's room to be more bold
in the encounters I do have.
*	Elyon:  The majority of you will not have multitudes to address; it will be
single-tudes, one-on-one experiences.  These small encounters are your most
effective events for expressing the truths and the revelations you know.  The
environment around you at this time during this cycle of human strife has
created
longing and the desire for understanding and has raised fears and confusion.
The
field is ripe for harvest.  Your tools are sharp and ready for the work.  I know
from my perspective there are multitudes that you do reach.  When you touch a
single person you do so with a significance that ricochets as that individual
then touches their household, their workplace, with their comprehension of the
values and the meanings that you expressed at one time.
	Though we may leave this session today and walk out the door and not have
multitudes to address, I still encourage you to be bold, and by that I mean
to be
ever ready to jump to the opportunity.  In this manner you will be alert
when the
situation arises that allows the presentation of an insight you have gained that
is of benefit to another.
	A side note: We teachers of this mission, while we receive our training and
our mandates from our superiors, our dos and don'ts for our activities here on
Urantia, we also draw our course of action from your responses and your
initiative.  When you accomplish the demonstration of lessons learned, the
multitudes assigned to this Correcting Time, this Teaching Mission, decide how
and where we may go in the further upliftment of this world.

	Kirk:  Could you speak on Adjuster abandonment?  Is it prevalent on this
planet or rare?
*	Elyon:  Outright Adjuster abandonment does occur, however it is rare
considering the state of affairs on this world and the lack of teachings
from the
planetary headquarters that would have been present on this world.  In light of
the aborted missions the hope is that you are ready to awaken to  this
understanding of the Divine Presence.  It slumbers in the religions of your
world.  Soon this understanding of the Thought Adjuster may break forth, burst
out of the confinement of religious theology, and be recognized as an actual
possession of all people everywhere.  Then will mankind's behavior alter
significantly.
	Adjuster abandonment is always a possibility because of free will.  A world
disordered and confused through rebellion and defaults like Urantia runs a
greater risk of the choice of the rejection of the Divine Presence.  However,
these circumstances are fully known by the Divine Presence, and many times the
human freewill function is based on misinformation poisoned by distorted
philosophy, and the Adjuster refuses to leave until the knowledge is clear and
the freewill creature is truly informed rightly.
	Does this address your question?
	Kirk:  Yes, thank you.

*	Elyon:  I will tend to my other duties.  I always enjoy our visits, and I
also pray for your friends in need.  I will even pay my visits and offer what I
can to help resolve the situation.  We know the Father is all-powerful and that
where two or three are gathered the Creator Son is present.  With that
understanding I am always willing to be of assistance to anyone in need.  Follow
the master and be of good cheer.