[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 02/23/03

[RickGiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Being a Reporter, Being and Author
Teachers: Elyon

February 23, 2003

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Friends, we meet again.  I take great delight in 
the discharge of all my duties.  I especially delight in the opportunity 
to be present with you and experience your enthusiastic investigations 
into the truths revealed throughout this Supreme universe and most 
especially as you discover applications in your individual lives that both 
enhance your understanding of these truths and foster your ability to 
present these truths to others, which is a form of revelation to any who 
stand in need of its reception.  This is Elyon.
	Today I will speak about our Creator.  It will be a short topic, for, 
as is implied, to speak about the Creator would entail great lengths of 
time to illuminate all elements of the divine Being.  I am sure you are as 
well aware as I am that this would be exhaustive and eternal in its 
undertaking, for the Almighty is beyond our grasp in entirety.  Therefore 
we must by force narrow to an element or two of that which manifests from 
God and in that focus attempt to assimilate truth elements that will copy 
and paste into other aspects of reality as you come to perceive it.
	We who work upon this world to bring about its upliftment are ever 
gratified and encouraged as we find human souls who are not only willing 
but engaging in the promotion of truth and beauty and goodness and doing 
so with a profound assuredness, doing so with an attraction to those in 
need.	It has been far too long a period of time wherein the “faithful”, 
as we may put it, have continually relied upon others to assure them of 
their relationship with God to credit them with the authority to teach 
about God.  While it is a potential danger that any individual may set 
aside the structures of authorization by human institutions and begin to 
teach as one who is above regulation, there is now the need upon this 
world for you to be confident and assured of your placement in the family 
of God and your qualifications to represent this relationship to all 
others.  Honest recognition of the perfection and Supremacy of the power 
and the grace of a sovereign being, while instilling in the human soul the 
sense of humility, also ought to develop within you a profound sense of 
belonging as a child of God.  Being a family member you are endowed with 
the inheritance of the divine and are sanctioned by your Creator Parent to 
represent this heavenly family to those who are discovering their 
spiritual ancestry. This is a delicate balance, the realization of your 
minuteness before an omnipotent Creator and your full and complete 
acceptance by this same God with the decree, the mandate, that you go 
forth and proclaim the saving gospel message of sonship with the Father 
and brotherhood with all your human kind and the angels and midwayers all 
around you.
	To be an author of a work must entail original creativity.  Otherwise 
one is not an author but a reporter.  While we humbly worship the highest 
universe authority, He who authored all that is, we in our upwelling of 
the rush of the goodness that impulses us to serve face two potential 
approaches.  One is to be a reporter and the other one to be an author.  
Many trained in the seminaries, many who have undertaken the disciplines 
of a monastic order, many who have gone through your educational systems, 
teach the congregations, teach the flocks, as reporters.  This is good, 
for the information, the truths of the kingdom of God, are dispersed and 
find lodgment in hungry souls.  But there is nothing more profound to the 
truth seeker than to witness authority, by that I mean one who authors 
these truths.
	There have been on your world many who could not healthfully function 
in this mode and have become fanatical self-proclaimed teachers, even 
regarding themselves as divine and above all others.  This is not the 
authority I speak of; this is not the creative authorship I indicate, for 
such imbalance is the result of the displacement of that humble worship of 
the divine replaced with the elevation of self.
	You know that you are indwelt by the divine Fragment of God.  This 
resident of divinity you passionately seek to feel more intensely, to 
understand more completely, and to share more accurately.  That is the 
creative author that you are privileged to be, as a representative to 
access as your source of information, the well from which you draw truth 
that may quench the thirst of your fellows.
	There is a plan that God has instilled within you by way of His divine 
presence.  This plan begins in your discovery of God, continues in your 
accumulation of truth that defines, illustrates, and clarifies God; then 
develops into what I have spoken of as reporting, and finishes when you 
fully embrace your belonging; your identity is merged with God.
	Jesus said, “He who would be first will be last, and he who is last 
shall be first.”  Comprehending the magnificence of God does contrastively 
reveal the minuscule-ness of an animal origin human with his frailties, 
insecurities, and ignorance.  In the realization of your humanness, given 
the presence of your Thought Adjuster, there begins the transformation of 
last into first.  By first, I mean cherished by God.  He who cherishes 
himself must first, before realizing the divine affection, come to the 
realization of insignificance, the first becoming last.  While this 
statement may appear judgmental, a condemnation of those who hold 
themselves superior, it is in reality part of a full-circle cycle, for in 
the humbling as last, one is prepared to rise to the truly first position 
of cherished as a child of God.  This is difficult balancing act to 
perform especially on Urantia.  When in doubt it is safe to assume that 
you are a reporter relaying what you have observed and experienced in the 
field so that another may benefit therefrom.  As you undertake your 
spiritual discipline, develop your soul, hone your character, discover 
deeper the qualities of your personality, you will develop that authority, 
that authorship, that sense of being as one who knows God, one who is God.  
You may ask, “How would I know that I have attained such a state?”  I 
would respond by saying that by way of the illustration of Jesus in 
service not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.  If 
you are uncertain, be a reporter.  When an incident arises where you are 
author, when you have authority, this will unfold in spite of yourself, 
naturally, as naturally as you are a child of God.  Any strain, any 
attempt to manipulate, is a fall into a wrong understanding of authority.  
This is the safety mechanism.  The more that you become, the greater is 
your revelation, and the less you will perceive that you are manifesting 
in this manner.
	We have undertaken many lessons all of which are designed to transfer 
you from a reporter to an author, each lesson given with the hope that you 
will shift your identity from the temporal and imperfect to the divine 
Fragment within you that is eternal and perfect.  We have surrounded these 
lessons with many safeguards that are designed to eliminate erroneous 
assumptions, those hasty conclusions which give you the wrong 
interpretation of your personal power, of your spiritual importance.  My 
survey of our efforts indicates to me that this is going well, for we have 
witnessed very few fanatical deviations within this Teaching Mission.
	I will summarize by saying that the time has come for each one to 
finalize their transformation of view from one adopted into the family of 
God to one who is truly a native child.  While you saw yourself as 
separate from God, the adopting arms of the Father were always open.  
Every adopted child is loved as one of natural origin in the divine 
family.  All are natural children.  The separation is in the nature of 
those reared upon a world wherein this teaching of the spiritual family 
and your belonging has been absent.  Only on worlds like Urantia do you 
grapple with the sense of having to find God.  On all other worlds of 
natural unfoldment God is given, and the accurate understanding and 
outliving of this divine presence is the challenge of life.
	As I said, to speak about the Creator I could go on for great lengths 
of time, so I will draw close here.  I would be more than delighted for 
you to interject your thoughts into this meeting.

	Kirk:  The paradox I see is that, when you verbalize God, concepts, to 
a brother or sister you feel godly.  When you feel godly you fall in love 
with yourself.  If you don’t have self-love you don’t have the energy to 
say what you feel.  If you don’t feel important, that you don’t know it, 
then you don’t feel it’s godly.  On the other hand, if you feel like you 
know it, then you feel better than the other person.

*	Elyon:  You have very well expressed the dilemma that is woven into 
our lesson today, and it has been illustrated by Jesus in many of his 
parables.  I call to mind another phrase of his, that of taking the beam 
out of your own eye before you take the splinter out of another, for if 
you carry the beam of false assurance or false insecurity you cannot 
remove the speck from another’s eye.  But when you have discovered your 
divine birthright sanely, you then are best equipped to take that speck 
from another’s eye.  In a twist of phrase I would say that by your 
discovery you are beaming and therefore can see best how to bring 
illumination to another.
	If I may add one more point, the potential peril of the sense of 
superiority from spiritual knowledge can be placed in check by remembering 
the delight within your own being as you came into the discovery of a new 
truth or your orientation to an existing truth, the satisfaction and  joy 
it brought you.  Orienting yourself back to that sensation or experience 
places you on an even level with that being you wish to minister to and 
prevents the sense of superiority that would be in danger of talking down 
rather than sharing with another.
	This that you speak of, the paradox, will remain a challenge forever.
	I am aware that each one of you assesses my personality traits.  You 
do so understanding that the transmitter/receivers through whom I present 
myself have colored my personality manifestation.  Yet given these avenues 
of expression you do discover elements of my character and define them.  I 
do not rank among you in the same way as does Lester.  With some of the 
teachers you find a chumminess and others you regard in a relationship of 
teacher and pupil.  I say this to confirm that even I must grapple with 
this same paradox.

	Kirk:  We’ll never have that assuredness; it’s just moment to moment, 
person to person.  Everyday is different.  So we’ll never have that 
assurance that we are going out and doing God’s will and do it?  It’s just 
day-to-day is what you do.  We look for the day we can go out and preach, 
but that day we are being self-assured and maybe self-elevating and 
egotistic.    I guess you just wait for the moment, live for the day.

*	Elyon:  You recall the story in your Urantia text when the imprisoned 
John the Baptist uttered a statement and, as he finished, he realized he 
had made prophesy.  You will be sensitive to your assurance usually 
following an episode, for the human mind is not quite swift enough to keep 
up with time, or, I should more accurately say, to rise above time and 
perceive its spectrum.  So, as the event arrives, transpires, and unwinds 
you will have undergone the enactment of the will of God only to realize 
it in hindsight.
	So, it raises in importance the many admonitions I give, and others 
who tend to your meetings, the practice of stillness, the review of your 
lessons, your efforts at service ministry; for each one of these 
undertakings are preparatory to an event wherein you are in ministry 
fulfilling the will of God and not aggrandizing yourself as one who is 
enlightened for another to be benefited therefrom.  To be assured requires 
preparation, and that is a self-focus.  To feel assured following an 
episode as you speak of also is a self-focused reflection.  But during the 
event forget the self, allow the divine Resident to expand within you and 
radiate from you.  Let not your left hand know what your right hand is 
doing, and you will fulfill the will of God.
	I might give illustration.  You stand on a high diving board.  You 
look down at the water.  The surface of the water is this service event 
that you are approaching.  You see it coming.  You are aware that you must 
dive.  Your eyes are open.  You jump.  You hit the water.  Your eyes are 
closed.  After you have entered fully you open your eyes again and see 
where you have gone, but at the instant of your service your eyes were 
closed.  This is self-forgetfulness, not that you completely erase your 
being from the stage of the universe, but in that instant of time you have 
shut down your focus on self and plunged into the experience.
	I hope this helps.  

	Kirk:  You’ve got to take the plunge.

*	Elyon:  You’ve got to jump.

	Kirk:  Thanks, Elyon.

	Evelyn:  You were talking about two things, reporting and authoring, 
so I was looking for a third.  Take fact, meaning, and value.  Reporting 
is sharing facts.  An author shares meaning, so the third would involve 
value.  I don’t have a word to sum it up yet, but I see the moment you are 
sharing having that divine content right there present.  It’s not the 
sharing of something from the past; it’s what is happening right then.  
The plunging with your eyes closed.  The exchange is the value.  Jesus 
shared facts, meaning, but for many just being in his presence was so 
uplifting.  He’s an example of that third corner of the triangle.

*	Elyon:  I enjoy your insight.  I would, in searching for a word to 
complete the triangle, offer perhaps -- though yet I am unsatisfied with 
the selection -- that word being experience.  I have cautioned -- or 
should I say discussed? -- two sides of authorship, the self-proclaimed 
human author authority and the divinely bestowed Author within you.  It is 
when the human allows the divine Author to reveal that the human 
experiences that connection of self with God.  This experience is what 
another truly resonates to.  You have perhaps experienced many times, 
whether reporting or authoring, a revealed truth that the information does 
not necessarily take hold, but another’s experience of encountering that 
revelation holds, sticks, lodges.  You likewise have that same experience 
as it applies to your growth.
	I hope this has supplemented your efforts to find a three-fold balance 
in this discussion.

	Tom:  Your mention of closed eyes brought to mind that in a musical 
performance often one closes one’s eyes to be more focused on the 
material. Whether you are the author of the material or just the reporter, 
the transfer of information is best served if you employ the tools of: you 
are not better, and you are not necessarily right.  You aren’t trying to 
be the greatest ever; you’re just trying to fill the moment.  That’s 
rewarding; you feel part of the flow as reporter or author.

*	Elyon:  Indeed, whether the song is yours or written by another, that 
experience you speak of is what fills the tune with magic.  This 
connection is the vital transferring link in the transfer of any 
information or, as you have illustrated, making a musical performance be 
infused with a living energy and not merely the repetition of sound in 
relationship.
	I am always blessed by contact with you.  Though I reckon time by 
another system of counting than you do, from your perspective I can 
honestly say it makes my week.  I will close this session.  I love you all 
dearly, and I observe fondly your weekly activities.  I am not omniscient.  
At times I am away, but I see your angels.   As you would relate to it, it 
would be as if I see them physically, and this I do, but I also see your 
angels in the sense that I visit with them.  It is in their retelling of 
the episodes you live that I come to know you even better even while I may 
be assigned to other tasks and out of this location.  Farewell.

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