[tmtranscripts] Elyon 4/8/04 Lightline -- Progress, Global View, and Gender

[bobdevine at onewest.net]

LightLine Teleconference 

4/08/04 

Teacher Elyon 

Topics - Progress, the Global View, and Gender 

* Greetings to you. I am Elyon, here this evening to 
communicate with you regarding the topic of progress. 

So often the difficulty a personality has in attaining goals is due to a 
lack of perspective regarding what it takes to get from one place to 
another. Although intellectually you recognize that there is effort, 
struggle, and ups and downs involved in any endeavor, the impetus to 
begin is often halted in the desire to already have the achievement. 
Progress is a direction, not a completion of goals, and so we endeavor 
to stimulate your thinking, regarding the possibilities that surface in 
your lives, toward the acts that may lead toward higher avenues of 
service and attainment. 

Take the time in your daily stillness to mull over ideas that surface, 
to contemplate the goal and the achievement and the possibilities lying 
on the horizon. But then utilize your indwelling aid, your fragment of 
God, to discuss and contemplate the avenues that you may follow in 
working toward the possibilities you foresee. You are not alone in this 
universe, stranded and drifting on the seas, trying to move your own 
raft toward dry land. Indeed, you have a compass; you have a pilot that 
can serve you even as you attempt to serve Him. 

Recognize that the will of God is not one thing here or there, one 
achievement, or taking this road instead of that road, but rather the 
will of God is the attempt to utilize God in your daily life, your 
desire to open to that presence and share what is going on and invite 
the illumination that is possible. The will of God is your inner 
cooperation with the Divine. 

Progress is the small steps taken to achieve the larger dreams. If you 
want to see the brotherhood of man recognized, what small steps can you 
foresee that would aid in this recognition? Perhaps being receptive to 
the daily opportunities, taking steps to help someone when you see that 
they need help, to be brotherly (or sisterly, as you may). 

Tonight I encourage you to ponder ways that you may progress toward the 
goals that creep up in your mind. Instead of dismissing them as not 
possible, perhaps look inward, sharing with God the idea and recognize 
if a step or two surface that you may do now or tomorrow. 

Service characterizes all universe ascenders. As you increasingly 
become identified with the desire to do good daily, you are 
strengthening your eternal potential and solidifying your place in the 
cosmos as an ascending child of God. Move forward in those ways that 
seem fit for you and know that a spiritual rallying will come behind you 
and aid you as you move forward. 

At this time I would be glad to share with you and discuss the questions 
on your mind. Greetings. 

(Questions are summarized as recorder didn't pick them up.) 

Q1: Elyon, it sounded like the message was a private one for me tonight. 
I thank you and the T/R. 

* Your gratitude is noted and I thank you for your expression 
of kindness. 

Q2: Elyon, sometimes it is hard to see the progress, but I have faith 
that it is so. We can't always see our effect on other people. It 
seems like there might be a time to come soon where progress may be seen 
in the world at a larger degree. Is this so? 

* Well that depends on the actions you take, both in community 
and as individuals. The happenings of the universe beyond your sight 
are understandably inviting to know. There are many opportunities for 
you daily, however. You are right that you cannot see all the progress 
that is being made on a global scale or even in your own life, nor do 
you understand the influence that you have. 

The spiritual principle that says that the act is ours and the 
consequence is God's suggests that in faith we can serve, we can share 
what it is that we know, but we are not to be overly concerned with the 
result. And yet, if you could stand back, much as your Jimmy Stewart 
portrayed (It's a Wonderful Life), and look upon the events of your 
life, you might see the people you've touched, but never knew you 
touched. And on the other side, due to the distortions of your world 
almost all citizens act out in negative ways at times that can influence 
others in their lives. 

My sharing with you would be to have you recognize that you are an 
influencing factor in the universe and that your steps make a 
difference. I suggest that it is probable that you will see degrees of 
progress, both on the community level and the individual level, because 
you have committed yourself to being of service; you want to do good. 
And, therefore, progress is assured as long as you have this motivation. 

Is this answering your question this evening or can I clarify further 
for you? 

Q2: Thank you. That was good. It's nice to know we can influence 
people that we don't even know we've influenced. 

* Yes. Hold this perspective in your mind that you are 
valuable and the energy you put out will affect the scheme of things. 
So I encourage your continued strengthening and building of quality 
actions in your life, and to let the seeds fall where they may. 

Q2: Thank you. 

Q3: It's good to speak with you Elyon. There is much turmoil in the 
world today. Can you give us some perspective on progress on a global 
scale? 

* This strife on your world is, perhaps, unavoidable due to the 
clashing of ideologies, and yet these struggles, although bloody and 
horrific at times or merely politically contentious, have their eventual 
resolution. The real value is in what you can do now, what is possible 
for you today. Are you in a position to help the world where you live? 
Can you make a difference? Can you speak out about your understanding? 
Can you represent how you would want to see the world living? 

Indeed, many activists in the world, in the desire to change injustice, 
lose sight of the reality that love, unity, and cooperation are 
necessary each day. I ask you to consider the global view, to recognize 
the struggles, to participate where you can, but then become a 
representative of those qualities now. And this can be done through 
that same sharing of the inner life with God. He will answer to you in 
your individual mind, to the extent that he can communicate with you, 
what those possibilities are for you. And so it is with this inward 
seeking that you will recognize what is possible for you. 

There are great writers in the world, great speakers, effective 
ministers, and there are many loving and caring souls who live in your 
neighborhood and each day do what they can in their circumstance to 
become the best person they can be. The global view will be known, but 
should not be so overriding that you should be depressed in your own 
spiritual journey, to achieve. Is this helpful to you? 

Q3: Yes, that was a beautiful answer. Thank you very much. 

* You are welcome. 

Q4: Can you take another question tonight? 

* Certainly. 

Q4: The Urantia Book speaks of the Universal Father and I've been 
sharing with a few female friends who have had difficulty with the 
language that is more masculine. I try to share the feminine aspects as 
well, but the difficulty is there. Can you speak about some of the 
feminine aspects of deity? 

* Indeed, are you correct when you refer to the fact that the 
concepts we must utilize are severely watered down to even become 
comprehensible to you on this world. Add to that the changing times, 
the adjustment of the mores, and the fluctuation in meanings, and it 
becomes quite difficult, indeed, to shed light from a static source, a 
book, a record that, while being the most advanced truth that has ever 
been shared on a large scale with your world, is continually becoming 
outdated and less recognizable in the terminology for the current time. 
It even states within the revelation that it would become in some ways 
outdated even though there are universal truths which will never become 
outdated. 

The parental concept is important for you to grasp as human beings in 
understanding the relationship of the divine to you personally. And 
there are qualities attributed that tend to be clich=E9s. There are 
masculine qualities and feminine qualities on your world that caused us 
to recognize that a differentiation was necessary in approaching the 
peoples of twentieth century America where the revelation was shared in 
its initial stage. 

The highest and noblest features of a father, if you would think about 
what you would want your father to be -- some of you have had good ones 
and some not so good as far as their manifestation of divinity in daily 
life -- but there is an ideal of one who provides and protects, one who 
oversees and offers insight into quality behavior. 

And there, likewise, are characteristics in a mother, much the same in 
quality, that nurture, minister to the daily needs, who wipe your noses 
and change your diapers, who generally are there to bring you to 
fruition with an all pervading love. 

And yet these are clich=E9s. These same qualities that good mothers 
manifest can be found in good fathers and those qualities that good 
fathers possess can be found in good mothers. But the differentiation 
necessary, asked us to compromise in a way that can give a concept to a 
human mind that there are differences in the manifestation of divinity 
and deity even if there is unity in intent and quality. 

Your role in sharing with others that which you have been given, is to 
look at ways that you can be the bridge. It is not so important that a 
person necessarily grasp the Urantia Book, the revelation in book form 
with all of its language, as it is that they understand that there is a 
pervading love and a protective and comforting presence that is integral 
to their existence. 

And if they struggle with the language, what would Jesus do? The 
question you so often ask as humans. He would find a way to relate it 
to them that was not offensive rather than requiring them to accept it 
your way. And so my suggestion is to learn to bring out the quality of 
the concept and let the language be what it is, for the real revelation 
is your own manifestation of the value that you receive. 

If they can accept this book, then great. If they cannot, then 
recognize that it is perhaps not because it lacks value as much as it 
has, in its own creation, put up barriers, even as it builds bridges for 
others. Are you understanding my commentary this evening? 

Q4: Yes. It was a very clear answer. Thank you. 

* Thank you. And continue to share the love you find with 
those in your life and perhaps they will be inspired by your dedication 
even if they are not as inspired by the source that stimulated your 
thinking in the first place. 

Are there any other comments this evening, my friends? 

Q5: If there are no other comments Elyon, could you close with a prayer? 

* Manu, my friend, I would ask if you would be willing to share 
a prayer this evening in my stead as I would like to gauge your own 
ability to turn toward the divine. We often serve in sharing prayers 
for you to model our own dedication and seeking of God and perhaps as we 
are brothers and sisters, you can do the same for us tonight, if you are 
willing? 

Q5: Yes, I would be. 

* Thank you, my friends, and with no further commentary I will 
turn into the stillness and listen for my brother's words. 

Q5: Our dear Father who pervades all space and is present now and in 
every time, we thank you so much for giving us this fantastic 
opportunity to be together, to feel your presence, and to listen to the 
wonderful words of our brothers in other dimensions of your creation. We 
thank you wholeheartedly for everything that you have granted us and 
everything you have manifested in our lives. We do realize that it is 
much more than we can imagine or comprehend in that the eternal life you 
have granted us does last for an eternity and beyond the scope of our 
imagination. We thank you again wholeheartedly for all the love and 
attention that we get from you and for all other manifestations of you 
in our world around us. Please continue to guide us in every moment and 
every position that we find ourselves. 

I'd like to end this prayer with a prayer I read in the TM newsgroup by 
Brother Dave. It is our prayer that thy will be supreme in our lives on 
a daily and moment by moment basis. Thank you very much.