[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 6/22/03

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Allowance, Enlargemnet of the Soul, Joy, Sweeping 
Changes, Baptism.
Teachers: Elyon, Balford

June 22, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  Greetings.  As you welcome us to this 
mountain retreat we also welcome you into the spirit 
congregation.  It is our joy to be recognized, to be 
acknowledged, and to be applied as you live your lives, that you 
do take to heart our contact and our lessons.  These are not 
given to gratify the ministers of Michael; these are given to 
uplift you in your journey into the presence of God.
	I have said many times that many attend these connections, 
and, while we may not always speak to you each one in 
attendance, there is keen interest in your welfare and in your 
comprehension.  While it may be only myself who presents to you 
a topic for consideration, my associates are busy noting your 
reactions and assisting you throughout your week in deriving 
greater benefit and understanding your personal requirements, 
your attainments, and your lacks that we may in counsel better 
relate to you in future meetings.
	I recall in our early years how often I was asked what the 
next stage or phase of our teaching would be, and I do remember 
the disheartenment over not receiving a clear answer.  Now you 
perceive in hindsight the value of our approach, for at every 
incremental change in your development we have likewise adjusted 
to accommodate your current situation at each point in our 
journey.  Spirituality, its attainment by personality, is not 
formulaic.  While teaching conceptually, transferring knowledge, 
cultivating understanding have distinct steps of presentation, 
spirit awareness is highly flexible and adaptable in time to 
relevancy.
	Your comprehension of truth, when you are eventually a 
resident of Havona, will be quite unlike your grasp today on 
Urantia.  It will not be the correct truth that shines light 
upon what may be perceived as a silly, infantile earthling’s 
perspective of truth.  It will be the understanding that truth 
is always relevant to the growth of the seeker.  There is no 
less value in your grasp today through the context of life on 
your planet, through the conditions defined by your earthly 
vehicle, through the incircuitment of mind given by Mother 
Spirit.
	You have a practice in your family institution of “giving 
allowance”.  Many a child has learned discipline through this 
practice.  There are two elements that you are aware of: the 
performance of chores that warrant the reward of allowance and 
the necessary bequeathing of financial aid in spite of work 
rendered, simply because the parent knows the child must have 
the provision to function.  The Divine Spirit, the Holy Father, 
undertakes the same principle in your spiritual growth.  Grace 
comes to you without earning it because you must possess it in 
order to function.  So you have the spirit presences bestowed 
upon you.  You have spirit incircuitments to aid you.  You have 
the presence of your guardians.  Also does the Father require of 
you the performance of tasks in the divine family that likewise 
will yield you reward, allowance.
	These chores in reality are the execution of your talents 
and skills, the application of your abilities as a human being 
that reveal the ministry of spirit in your life and the function 
of truth as you have come to grasp it at your current state.
	A child may react to allowance in two ways: count the many 
ways in which the money to be received may be spent, or 
determine how long it may be squirreled away and accumulated for 
future benefit.  Each child determines the percentage of 
retention or release.  And so do you as you receive the grace 
allowance determine the portion that is retained for your future 
and that which will be spent in outreach and ministry and 
service.
	As you have come into and grown with the teachings of the 
Fifth Epochal Revelation, you have discovered that which may be 
freely given away for another to understand and that which you 
realize is best not expressed.  This is a simple comparison to 
the complexity that is your entire life.  You will and do 
receive revelation which is an investment in your future and 
will lay apparently dormant within your mind at superconscious 
levels.  There they incubate in order that at the attainment of 
relevant status that truth will explode into your full awareness 
and become revealable to others.
	While you seek to better comprehend the truth revelations of 
the divine, you will also develop better skills at discerning 
those revelations that will rest and ripen within you and those 
which you may immediately reveal to your fellows.  This will not 
happen simply in the reception of truth; it will happen through 
the development of wisdom as you experience the application of 
truth along with your successful efforts and your errors.  This 
flexibility of learning in the spiritual dimension of yourself 
is what makes being a child of God a wonderful adventure, an 
exciting experience, and gives to the Father a gift not capable 
of being given by any other but yourself.
	The divine Parent cherishes each child as any parent loves 
each individual child.  The wise parent knows that no two 
children are alike.  While they may be taught similarly, they 
will develop individually.  Therefore, as you continue your 
exploration of universe reality, seek to comprehend and 
coordinate in your consciousness a description of reality.  Be 
not concerned that you must in some manner find a uniform, 
conform to a code, fulfill a list of requirements to be 
qualified.  Your individual experience is the only requirement 
the Father asks of you.  Your creative expression is the longing 
of your divine Parent.
	I speak of this today because it all applies to the 
enlargement of your soul.  While from the seat of the human mind 
the heart of personality longs for connection with the divine, 
and while the divine bestowed upon you likewise longs for and 
seeks the connection with the human being, the actual goal is 
the birth and growth of your soul.
	You have spoken today of a three-fold perspective of being, 
doing, and having.  You may be a human being; you may have the 
divine spirit, but what you do is your soul growth.  From the 
highest level of your makeup as a living creature you may be the 
presence of the divine Father, and you have a human personality, 
but in the end it is the dynamics of soul growth that is the 
activity of your life.
	Those of you who dabble in the realms of bringing plant life 
forms from dormancy through to fruiting know that each little 
life form develops distinctly in spite of similar conditions, 
that no matter how much you control your environment each 
seedling takes on its own appearance and manifestation.  No two 
are alike; no two soulw are alike, and this is the Father’s 
will.
	I trust you have discerned that I am Elyon.  I express my 
name for the record, and will joyfully engage with you in 
conversation.

	Jada:  Joy seems an important aspect of soul growth, a 
catalyst, food for soul growth.

*	Elyon:  Joy to the soul is like an electrolyte to the 
nervous system.  It brings vitality; it communicates; it creates 
conditions where contact between the Father Fragment and the 
human personality may be heightened and felt more directly with 
less effort given to external conditions and human environment.  
The more joy you experience, the less you need anything around 
you to stimulate joy.

	Kirk:  Welcome, Elyon.  I’m glad you found this spot today.  
(We were meeting at Kirk’s for the first time.)
	I’m becoming aware that joy is sharing; soul growth is 
sharing.  You can’t grow unless you’re sharing.  Whether it’s 
service or insights, it’s not joy by itself; it’s the sharing 
with others that grows the soul.

*	Elyon:  Yes, this is true, and the sharing between the 
Father’s bestowed presence within you and your human self is 
likewise joyful.  It is a lubricant.  Even the bumpy roads of 
life are easier to bear when the lubricant of joy intervenes 
between the abrasion.

	Kirk: Like the sine wave lesson you gave, the joy of the 
divine within and the joy of sharing the divine which goes out.

*	Balford:  This is Balford.  I am another midwayer, and I 
take this time to make my acquaintance to you. (Welcome)
	Our master when he was on our cherished planet said that 
there was more joy in heaven when one lost sinner came into the 
fold than for all the ninety nine who already resided therein.  
This joy is over the transformation of a life.  Yes, the other 
ninety nine are happy, for they comprehend their relationship to 
God, and the joy is abundant.  But the joy of transformation is 
highly regarded, so much so that the entire universe, we are 
told, is engaged in seeking out all who do not know their divine 
source and origin.  So, in each of your lives you can likewise 
experience joy, wonderful joy, by aiding in transforming 
yourself into what you truly want to become.  It will be a 
struggle, but there is no joy without struggle, just as the lost 
one was in pain and hurt.

	Evelyn:  It’s interesting that you said transform yourself.  
I thought you were going to say to help bring around apparent 
evil doers.  I think we have enough to do just working on 
ourselves.

*	Balford:  My life has been that very undertaking you speak 
of.  If you could have been in attendance subsequent to the 
scattering of the midwayers, you would have found us all 
seriously undertaking the task of convincing each other of the 
folly of their ways.  Soon we discovered that we each 
individually had to choose soul-y our personal direction 
regardless of whether anyone of our kin would agree or follow or 
even harm us.  Upon this realization we became united, 
harmonized.  Our love deepened.  Casualty of having fallen as an 
order of beings was transformed into the joy at the discovery of 
acceptance and growth.
	I will give back to Elyon.

	Tom:  We have spoken in this group several times and 
recently Abraham spoke of sweeping changes soon to be 
experienced in the Teaching Mission.  Are you at liberty to 
speak to that?

*	Elyon:  These changes have been hinted at sporadically in 
order to prepare you, that you not be disturbed by way of 
surprise.  “Sweeping,” the word used, conjures images of an 
across-the-board change.  It also implies the sweeping away of 
the existing, the clearing of the floor.  This will not be the 
sweep for you to look for, for you will remain within the ranks 
of this mission.  These changes will roll over you; that is the 
manner of the sweep.  As I have indicated in my lesson of the 
flexibility and variability of our teaching to you, this sweep 
will not be discernible as a, in a sense, linear unfoldment.  
You will have cross-breezes of change taking origin in one 
group, extending to others, and different changes being born in 
a different group and reaching others.  The goal of these 
changes is the greater activation of the human resources within 
this Teaching Mission, the application of your learning in 
uplifting this planet.
	There will not be changes such as the removal of Machiventa 
from oversight or the removal of the teachers from the program, 
but it is known that the human creature is prone to routine and 
to settle into complacency, and we have been at this program for 
quite some time.  While I cannot specifically cite a soon-to-be 
encountered change, we are directed to let you know that these 
changes are coming.  Be alert, look for the signs.  But most 
importantly strengthen yourself spiritually through -- you 
guessed it! -- stillness.

	Evelyn:  You introduced two midwayers recently.  Has there 
been a return of reformed midwayers?

*	Elyon:  It is magnificent the mercy of the Father.  No 
creature is lost who seeks His forgiveness.  Rehabilitated 
midwayers are granted the second mile.  They are allowed to 
demonstrate reformation.  Midwayers have returned who have 
undergone their judgment and retraining.  The newly introduced 
midwayers that you have received today and recently are not of 
that class.

	Evelyn:  Thank you.  Welcome back to them.

*	Elyon:  Your greeting is received and distributed.

	Jael:  Thank you, Elyon, for sticking with us all this time 
and encouraging us in our stillness practice, and being here for 
us.  You are a patient soul.

*	Elyon:  I do receive your gratitude.  When I was through 
with my preparatory training to enter into this mission outreach 
program, I was given the opportunity to request assignment to 
certain potential groups, to certain locations.  I admit that 
you were my first choice, and I am delighted to find I chose 
wisely, for you have rewarded me greatly through our 
relationship and through the success of the application of our 
teaching.
	My friends, if you are content I will let you go.  However I 
will not cut you off if you are willing to continue.

	Harold:  Could you give your opinion of the master’s saying 
it is a requirement for entering the kingdom that we be born of 
water and of the spirit?

*	Elyon:  The master spoke to a generation of people who 
belonged to a religion that incorporated baptism as an 
indication of cleansing and transformation and belonging.  He 
emphasized that undertaking a ceremony as this was not enough to 
become truly, independently, part of the kingdom.  The spirit 
infusion is the true transformation, the true crossover into 
universe brotherhood.
	I know you have said in your discussion that being baptized 
by water may indicate the taking on of human form, your 
biological structure being largely composed of water.  There is 
truth to this, for had you not been born a human being you would 
not have had the opportunity to be reborn in spirit.  But water 
also indicates the nourishment of teaching.  In a time which is 
not far removed from your current time, the religious 
institution was that fountain, that spring, for spiritual 
education, and he was indicating that that was not enough.  
There must be the inner personal transformation that only spirit 
may baptize you with.
	The master taught on many levels.  He also spoke that he was 
the Water of Life.  He taught that he would send his Spirit of 
Truth, and you now have the clarification that likewise the 
Mother Spirit has bestowed her spirit upon you.  In that manner 
being baptized by water is coming into fellowship with Michael.  
Great as that is, the further requirement is not to stand simply 
in association to Jesus, acknowledging him and recognizing your 
discreet difference, but also to be infused, enshrouded, and 
indwelt by his spirit presence to the degree that you become 
like him.  That is the spirit baptism.  And that yields full 
membership in the family of God, at least as it holds true in 
our universe of Nebadon.

	Harold:  So Jesus’ baptism was for the population to know 
that he was about to begin his mission?  Or was it something he 
felt he needed for a starting point?

*	Elyon:  The master avoided all forms of honorary 
recognition, of professional distinction.  He also knew that 
many would doubt his validity without some form, some symbol, 
that they may grasp that would fulfill that requirement of the 
human mind of authority.  John was creating a stir at the time; 
he was agitating the complacency of a structured religion.  By 
submitting himself to John’s baptism, Jesus broadcast to those 
who witnessed it that he too would be upsetting, would stir the 
status quo.  So he fulfilled two purposes: the one a recognition 
of validity through an honored ceremony, and, two, the message 
that he would not be like the rest.

	Harold:  Thank you for that clarification.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome.
	I will close by saying that you have brought up this baptism 
by water and spirit, and say, how can spirit baptize spirit?  
Jesus did not need the spirit baptism, therefore, approached 
baptism for the sake of the human creature on the tangible level 
of water.
	I take my leave.  Farewell.