[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho Team 10/20/02

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: The Shape of Spirit, The Rock of the 
Kingdom
Teachers: Elyon, Michael

October 20, 2002

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to each 
of you.  This is your pal Elyon.  It brings 
me delight to be assembled in this 
convocation of responsive souls.  It 
engenders great hope for the destiny of this 
world to witness such aspiration and to 
perceive your aspirations transform into 
application.  The art of spiritual living is 
this very transformation of aspiration into 
application.  I will speak on the shape of 
spirit,	the form of the formless.
	When finite beings attempt a description 
of God it soon becomes obvious that no 
amount of sentence structure, no amount of 
precise terms, can fully describe spirit 
nature.  So, new terms are constructed which 
stretch beyond the time and space frameworks 
in which all your typical living experiences 
take place.  So words such as “omnipresence” 
and “omniscience”, “absolute”, and the like 
come into being, each one attempting to 
grasp a state of being that is not 
fathomable to the human mind other than 
through the avenue of faith, for each term 
in itself springs from a finite notion.  For 
instance, “presence” typically defines the 
location of a being; a being is present at 
one place, not another.  “Omnipresence” 
attempts to expand the sense of location to 
everywhere and so is breaking the 
constraints of finiteness, all the while 
relying upon finite sensibility for 
comprehension.
	While God is omnipresent you are also 
taught He dwells within.  You have been 
given the term “Father Fragment”.  You 
understand the phrase “spark of divinity”, 
and these terms “fragment” and “spark” use 
the spacial limitations of size.  So, that 
still, small voice that dwells within hales 
from the omnipresence of an absolute God.
	To some it is repulsive to even attempt 
a description of deity, for it all falls 
short.  To others it is frustrating to not 
arrive at a clear description of who God is 
in character and attributes and qualities.  
I express to you today that the Father of 
all has no desire to be defined and yet is 
all encompassingly passionate towards a 
profound and knowing contact with His 
creatures.  Being aware of the limitations 
of our finite natures, our Father has 
undertaken the stupendous adventure of 
Supremacy, of finite growth, of evolution.
	Jesus said, “Follow me”, while upon this 
world he dedicated the greater part of his 
adult life to revealing the Father.  
However, along with this undertaking, 
challenging as it was, he also devoted his 
time to bringing the creature to the 
Creator.  You each are, in your own rights, 
shapers of spirit just as Michael was when 
he was in the shape and form of Jesus.  He 
said when he was about to leave this world 
that, “Where I go you cannot go”.  But he 
will send his Comforter to be with you.  Why 
would he say that he goes where you cannot 
go when he also said that he goes to prepare 
a place for you?  It is because he is a 
creator personality and we are creatures.  
However, each one throughout Nebadon is 
indwelt by his comforting presence of the 
Spirit of Truth.  It is through the bestowal 
of this spirit that you have life more 
abundantly.  You may not have more life, but 
it will be abundant in spirit presence and 
spirit nurture.
	Although it is noble for the human mind 
to reach for an increasingly accurate 
description of deity, for it is a beneficial 
legacy for all the creatures to follow in 
the centuries that roll by to have platforms 
from which they may establish and stage 
their understanding of God, this is not the 
shaping of spirit I speak of today.  I speak 
of the shaping of spirit as spirit indwells 
and fuses and moves through you.  We may 
hunger for a definition of God; God hungers 
for the shape of finite and does so satisfy 
this desire of the divine through you, each 
one.  True, from the creature perspective we 
each seek to conform more fully to those 
qualities of divinity that we understand to 
be the Father’s will.  This is acceptable in 
the sight of God.  And we have another task, 
and that is to provide the arena wherein the 
Father may take shape within the finite 
world.  That is why you are indwelt by the 
Father, by Michael, and by Mother Spirit; 
not only to bring you into their presence 
but for you to bring their presence into 
your world.  While we each have standards 
and ideals we reach for, aspire toward, we 
have also the freedom of expression that 
provides the variety of experience sought 
for as the Absolute infuses itself into the 
limitations of the finite.
	You might say we are all like carnival 
balloons.  We each are filled with spirit, 
but we can be tied into many shapes, twisted 
and altered to reveal a different pattern.  
Yes, we may wish to fully fathom the content 
of the air that fills our balloons, but 
along with that is the privilege of 
providing the shape for that air to be 
manifest.  What is stillness but the filling 
of the balloons, creating the opportunity 
for spiritual pressure to inflate you that 
you may take shape and that you may give 
shape to spirit within.  You are in the same 
position as Jesus was so many centuries ago.  
You have a duty to your own well-being to 
more deeply comprehend the nature of God and 
to establish a strong fellowship with Him.  
But you also have the responsibility of 
revealing to your fellows precisely what you 
have discovered in your inner life.
	Due to the fact of the intangible 
qualities of spirit, it is each one’s 
responsibility to provide the shape, just as 
a pitcher, a glass, or even a hose provides 
form to water.  This is the divine 
partnership.  And it is the Father’s will.
	I pause now and remain in your presence.

	Mark:  I pray to be awakened to the need 
to ask to be that receptacle that the spirit 
of the Father may fill us to overflowing, 
that we may drip our overflowing essence of 
the Father as we go through our daily 
activities, that we be so full of the 
Father’s love that we can’t help but splash 
it on others as we make our way through this 
life.  Thank you.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome, and this that 
you express of the cup that runneth over is 
indeed the desire of Father.  How could it 
run over if it were not full and there were 
no cup?  There would be no brim over which 
it may flow.  There is where your 
willingness, your asking, enters in.

	Mary:  You commented that God hasn’t 
much interest in being defined but has 
intense interest in being known.  How do you 
know something but by interacting with it?  
We can get to know God by interacting with 
Him, taking into account that He is present, 
He is everything we believe Him to be.  By 
acting out our faith, setting it in motion 
beyond just believing we will discover more 
than just by pondering.

*	Elyon:  Yes, this is true.  As example, 
imagine two glasses on a table filled with a 
liquid, both clear.  A simple description 
that ended there would reveal no 
differences.  Yet, as you have said, 
interacting with each glass of liquid brings 
deeper understanding, not simply through an 
observation, but through experience.  If you 
touched a match to both and one took to 
flame, and the other put the match out; 
clearly there are two different items in 
your view.  The more you interact, the 
deeper your understanding.  As your 
understanding expands, the more intimate 
your interaction.

*	Michael:  My beloved, I extend myself to 
be acknowledged by you through this form of 
audible reception.  I am Michael.
	Peter has been credited with being the 
one referred to when I said that upon this 
rock I will build my kingdom.  Peter has 
pleased me greatly with his effort at 
building the kingdom of Christendom.  Yet 
there is another element to this phrase that 
is often overlooked.  I today speak to you 
in support of Elyon’s lesson.
	When I completed my mission here on 
Urantia, you understand how I ended my 
career of vicegerency as a Creator Son and 
transitioned into my current standing as 
Master and Sovereign.  Until I finished this 
bestowal I was preparing the kingdom.  Now 
the preparations are over, and the kingdom 
is being built, built with the materials of 
my previous bestowals, built with the 
infusion of the creative powers of my 
consort Nebadonia.  This rock, Urantia, 
became the starting point for the 
construction.  What was once ages of 
preparation is now a vast effort and drive 
toward completion.  Upon this rock of 
Urantia I build my kingdom.  You will not 
see temples.  You will not see road signs 
saying, “Two miles ahead is the kingdom”.  
So, where am I building this kingdom on this 
rock?  I trust you know the answer.  The 
kingdom is within you, my children.
	There is much work to be done, great 
adventures ahead.  It has been ordained from 
the Isle of Paradise that all is well in 
Nebadon, that our efforts are proceeding 
according to the Father’s will.  You may 
doubt; you may be unassured at times, but 
the kingdom is being built, and the 
foundation is solid.  I give you my 
dedication as one who has completed my 
training.  In fullness and power with love I 
am with you.

	Mark:  Likewise, Michael, we seek your 
presence and love in our circle and our 
lives that we may be closer to you, that we 
may be open vessels through which your love 
may pour to those around us.  We seek this 
above all else.  Thank you for your gifts.

*	Elyon:  This is Elyon.  I close our 
meeting today and encourage you to give 
shape to spirit, to revive form to the 
formless, to let your light so shine to 
allow your radiance to be received by 
others.  I leave you with one small image to 
ponder.
	I have today used air and water to mark 
the sense of the formless and  shapeless, 
intangible qualities of spirit to the 
creature mind.  We haven’t even begun to 
address the qualities of light and having it 
take shape.  Perhaps this week you can look 
for ways in which you shape light.  
Farewell.
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