[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 9/28/02

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Michael Visits, About Michael
Teachers: Michael, Elyon

September 28, 2002


*	Michael (Ginny TR):  Greetings, my 
friends.  I come in your midst as your 
sovereign and your friend.  It gives me 
great joy to witness the yearnings and 
aspirations of your spirits in trying to 
accomplish the will of our Father.  It is 
indeed a sight to behold, not only to me, 
but to all who are in attendance.
	As mortals you have your struggles, but 
you are doing well in your striving to 
become more and more spirit filled and God 
conscious.  It is indeed true that the more 
time you spend in this rarefied atmosphere 
the easier it becomes for you to make 
decisions to speak, to offer help that is 
supportive and spirit filled, that comes 
from a loving heart and a willing mind.  
Each day as you make your small attempts to 
illuminate your environment and to share the 
light of God you  become more adept and more 
relaxed at your performance.  Any frequent 
practice always makes the performance 
easier.
	I come today to encourage you to 
continue in this manner with your desires 
and your attempts to become more and more 
luminous, and to become more and more 
effective in your ambassadorship.  Be 
assured that I am with you always and 
continue to serve you even as you wish to 
serve.
	I give you my blessing, my love, and my 
peace.  I take my leave.

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  Hello, my good 
friends, this is Elyon.  I am going to share 
with you some reflections about Michael.  It 
eases Jonathan’s mind to know that I will 
speak about Michael, that it was not Michael 
to speak through him on this subject. 	You 
have delighted our master son with your open 
discussion today regarding the needs of your 
fellows and your own abilities to minister 
to them and your reflection upon your own 
growth in regard to the needs presented to 
you by others.
	You have studied enough to know that 
Michael underwent a series of bestowal 
incarnations at various levels of creature 
life in Nebadon, and you are aware of his 
final bestowal on Urantia as a human.  Being 
the Creator Son he is, he has all the 
qualities of the Father.  As Son he carries 
these divine qualities into his universe and 
begins to manifest them as he brings about 
the creation.
	You each strive sincerely to understand 
your fellows.  You struggle with the 
conflicts inherent in the fact that each of 
you is dual-natured, both spirit at the core 
and housed in animal form, and that you are 
distinct and so is another.  In that state 
you may not always see exactly from the same 
vantage point.
	Michael has created a wide range of 
creatures, orders of beings of differing 
temperaments, aptitudes, and inclinations.  
Within each order again this diversity 
reveals itself from individual to 
individual.  Being the creator, the source 
from which all these variations of creature 
being derive, he does understand these 
multifaceted manifestations, yet it was and 
still remains of vital importance that he 
underwent being each creature, for it 
revealed to him a perspective of living not 
found even by a creator who oversees 
creature life.  Imagine the experience of 
growth that Jesus underwent as he sat in a 
circle around a campfire with his apostles 
and looked into the eyes of Peter as he was 
troubled, as Judas struggled, as John rose 
up in enthusiasm, as Thomas doubted the 
efficacy of their actions.  This experience 
was received by the human Jesus.  Michael 
the divine suspended intrusion into their 
inner beings so that the complete creator 
could encompass the experience of a 
creature, one who needed to extract the 
feelings and thoughts of another, to wrestle 
with understanding, to compare ones own 
experience with the experiences of another.  
Though this Creator Son is the origin and 
source of the Spirit of Truth, as Jesus he 
too did not have that Spirit of Truth 
bestowed upon him just as the apostles at 
that time did not.  Now having experienced 
this state of otherness, being a creature 
among creatures, and coupling this 
experience with his divinity as a creator, 
he has accomplished a feat that I can 
describe only as experiential power in order 
to distinguish it from the inherent divine 
power of a Creator Son.
	Today you have expressed the very 
emotions, you have undertaken the very 
investigations, that Michael did when here 
on earth.  Today you are blessed with his 
spirit presence.  As you minister to your 
friends and as your friends provide 
opportunities for your own growth, remember 
always his presence with you and within 
another.   This is a bonding force for 
unity.
	Your country experienced an act of 
aggression, and for a time you all felt some 
togetherness, a coalescing  sympathy, and a 
temporary unity which over time appears to 
fragment into the diversity of all your own 
individual opinions and sentiments.  The 
unity is not gone.  The diversity is the 
mosaic of your unity.  The variety of 
creature types is precisely the will of 
Michael.  If any one creature order were 
more important that would have been his only 
bestowal incarnation.  But he incarnated on 
every level.
	The Truth Spirit of Michael is a 
combined force of the divine nature and the 
creature experience.  This is why his good 
spirit was not spread abroad in Nebadon 
until he completed his creature bestowals.  
You, though you live centuries after his 
visit here, are as much a contribution to 
his Spirit of Truth qualities as is anyone 
else, for he truly was human.  Aligning 
yourself with his presence you receive as 
well the experiences that he underwent in 
all his bestowals.  You will however not 
gain a direct awareness of any episode, but 
you will be able to draw upon the resultant 
wisdom; you will be able to receive 
Michael’s insight, for, as he just told you, 
he is with you always.  When his apostles 
fretted, when they were overcome with zeal, 
this became the experience of our Sovereign 
Son.  Today as you adjust to the trials of 
others and as you acknowledge and act upon 
your own struggles, carry it in your faith 
always that supremely Michael fully 
understands.  He understands you; he 
understands that other one.  When you reach 
in compassion toward your fellow, Michael 
reaches back to you in his Spirit of Truth.  
Michael reaches to the other from you, and 
this is your unity.  Another may hold 
entirely different opinions than you.  You 
may never fully understand your orientation.  
Michael has experienced both and every shade 
of variation between you, to every side of 
you, above you, and below you.
	Unification in spiritual harmony is had 
in the experience of the presence of Michael 
in his Spirit of Truth.  Even the Father’s 
presence, the Thought Adjuster, does not 
have this same coalescing effect, for as you 
have understood, this divine spirit is the 
Father Fragment; each distinct, discreet, 
and your personal gift.  However, Michael is 
spread abroad encompassing you all 
collectively.  Your unity in the Father is 
in the fact that you each have received His 
divine presence.  You are Father blessed 
equally.  Your unity in Michael is the fact 
that you share in community his divine 
presence, the Spirit of Truth.  The Father 
indwells you; Michael permeates you.  The 
Father is your Father, and you are all His 
children.  Michael is your brotherhood; he 
is your togetherness.  When you seek to 
understand your fellows, you are acting in 
the realm of the Son.  When you seek to 
understand yourself, you are pursuing the 
Father.
	Be light upon yourselves as you mature 
in your spiritual dimension.  Rest assured 
that there was many a night that Jesus spent 
awake wrestling with the perplexities of 
human relationship, stirring to understand 
how another thinks and feels and what his 
relationship would be to another.  Michael 
knows.  Michael understands and is fully 
capable and ever present to assist you in 
your discovery of solutions and your 
refinement of your talents.
	He has placed his arm upon your 
shoulder.  As you place your arm upon the 
shoulders of your fellows in need, the 
circle is complete, for his arm is upon them 
as well.  This is the manifestation of his 
Spirit of Truth.
	I have completed my discourse and would 
receive your questions if you are holding 
some at this time.

	Evelyn:  We were talking earlier about 
giving advice, how and when.  It was pointed 
out the time when Jesus was sensitive to the 
yearning look in someone’s face which told 
him that advice was welcome.  How do we 
develop that talent, to know when our advice 
is welcome without asking?  Maybe we should 
just ask.

*	Elyon:  My advice is that you assume a 
position of equality and that you make that 
known to the other person.  The difficulty 
with advice is its tendency to verticalize 
the relationship, to put the one giving 
advice above the one who is receiving it, 
willingly or not.  This is the reason for 
the admonition that you give advice only 
when asked for, for in the asking the 
element of sharing enters in.  It is wise of 
the one who has advice to give to make an 
effort to tip the vertical tendency over 
into a horizontal level of sharing.  The art 
from which you may better accomplish this is 
found in your choice of words and even more 
importantly in your expression of compassion 
and in your humility.
	A guideline that I offer is that you 
further develop your discernment of 
another’s signals that indicate a request 
for advice, for they may not be verbal.  
Secondly, watch your own motivations.  Ask 
yourself, is your desire to present the 
advice sincerely to help fill the needs of 
the other?  Or is it on some level only 
gratifying yourself?
	It is not so much -- for I know you all 
well -- that you are looking to make 
yourself appear holier and more accomplished 
and attained than another, for I do not see 
that.  But a little more subtly, is the 
pleasure derived in expressing wisdom? and 
this is not wrong.  It is a joy to have 
attainments that we call wisdom, and it is a 
passion to express these insights, and it is 
love that seeks to give them.  But it is the 
human who often does not understand these 
mechanisms, and so simply remind yourself 
that you are seeking to be of assistance 
entirely for the other individual’s benefit, 
and that may require saying nothing at all.  
It may require waiting weeks, months, or 
years until the advice may be offered.
	Now I wish to play with this word 
“advice”, take a knife to it and cut it up.  
Let us split the word into “ad” and “vice” 
and put an extra “d” in there for 
understanding.   You know that a vice is an 
external act, item, that is used 
inappropriately to give one a sense of well-
being or gratification.  Vice stands in 
contrast to virtue.  If you are moved to 
advise  another, ask yourself how you may 
add virtue, to demonstrate, to present, in 
your own composure qualities of being that 
another would wish to assimilate.  They will 
readily then seek your advice.
	I hope this helps.

	Ginny:  Jesus effected people without 
saying a word.  There must be many ways we 
can develop ourselves to be more effective.
  
*	Elyon:  Yes, and the utterance of the 
man who said, “Behold the man”  encapsulates 
precisely what you have just said.

	Ginny:  There must be inner qualities 
that are much more attractive than words.

*	Elyon:  Indeed.

	Evelyn:  When brainstorming in the 
leisure after the moment it’s easier to come 
up with alternate ideas than right when 
something is happening.  It isn’t the same 
situation.

*	Elyon:  No, however, this reflective 
interval is beneficial and is a technique 
Jesus used with his apostles subsequent to 
any encounter with the masses.  It allowed 
them to orient those events with higher 
teaching and to reconcile any feelings of 
failure or displeasure from what may have 
happened.  These sessions of clarity 
derivation, though they make the prior 
experience seem so clouded with 
misunderstanding, they step you forward to a 
more effective approach at a subsequent 
time.  You have done that today in your 
discussion, as you have shared with each 
other your own shortcomings as well as your 
successes in offering help to another.
	One day you will receive a morontia 
form, and this vehicle for morontia 
manifestation will be a thrill to you.  You 
know the joy of driving a brand new car 
(Some in group: “No, we don’t!”)  Everything 
works.  This will be similar but greatly 
magnified when you resurrect and take on a 
morontia form.  Everything works.  And your 
ability to discern another’s expressions 
will be clearer.  Languages improve.  The 
crude forms of hearing apparatus you have 
now will no longer be.  Sound is augmented 
with vibrations your ears cannot hear.  Your 
vocal expressions will also be expanded with 
tonalities you cannot express through your 
throats.  Your eyes will see more deeply 
into the soul of another than they do now as 
they gaze upon your fleshly forms.  And 
advice will be more appropriately timed and 
more likely well received.

	Ginny:  We need to learn to allow people 
to do their growing.  It may be hard to 
watch someone suffer, but it’s a growth time 
for them.  They may not see it as they are 
experiencing it, but they will see later on.  
We might interfere with that growth.

*	Elyon:  This is profoundly insightful.  
Any parent knows that repeated admonitions 
to a child to refrain may fall on deaf ears.  
When a child does actually engage in the 
activity which they were counseled to avoid 
they suddenly and finally realize the truth.  
But it was not truth in the admonition; it 
was truth in the experience.  Though that 
does not mean you let them stumble blindly 
into their calamities, for any parent seeks 
to protect their child.  But stages of 
growth require certain episodes of 
experience to build a true foundation for 
their growth to continue to ascend upon.
	I may add on this topic of advice that, 
since sometimes, as you have indicated, they 
must undergo an experience that rather than 
providing beforehand a “you ought to” or 
“you ought not to”, you could provide rather 
options.  This may be undertaken.  Or this.  
Or another action.  You have then provided 
the potentials for decisions on their parts 
rather than limit the freedom of their 
experiences.

*	Nebadonia:  This is your mother, 
Nebadonia.
	My associate Michael has told you that 
he is with you always.  This word “always” 
is a time word.  Forever and always.  I 
likewise am with you always, and my always 
is an “LL” all ways, for every element, 
dimension, every situation, any 
manifestation of being and things in this 
universe I give.  Go with Michael, and as 
you travel with him it is my presence that 
you travel through.  This may be hard to 
understand, my little ones.
	You know me as your Mother Spirit.  You 
know Michael as your Creator Son.  We are 
the apex of all there is in Nebadon, and we 
are not only source and origin, we are your 
destiny within Nebadon.  Given origin and 
destiny, it goes without saying that all 
that transpires in between not only has our 
full attention but has our full 
participation.
	I embrace you.  I embrace you in the 
crudest forms such as dirt which gives you 
the sustenance of food.  I embrace you in 
breath which sustains your life.  And I 
embrace you on levels far more subtle than 
this.  In all ways I am with you.  We are 
with you.