[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 04/04/04

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Honor, Culture of Cooperation, Spirit Gravity Circuit
Teachers: Elyon

April 4, 2004

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this is Elyon, happy 
to be with you today in company.  Our association is cherished 
by myself.  It is always a blessing to be part of your life.
	We can always learn from each other and in doing so apply 
each other’s experience to our own lives and in so doing expand 
our ability to grow, to mature as a spirit being.  Socialization 
and fraternity are nutrients of the spiritual life, and it does 
benefit the soul to have a variety of such nutrients for a 
balanced spiritual diet.
	In a competitive world such as the world you dwell upon 
great emphasis is placed upon ownership and originality, the 
possessiveness of things including that of what you call 
intellectual property.  Even your industry of celebrity is 
geared toward non-replication, that being, each star is valued 
for his or her unique abilities and personality.  However, when 
you ascend into the realms of morontia, you will be refreshed by 
a culture of cooperation where emulation is seen as honoring 
another’s abilities.  It is not seen as copying; it is not 
viewed derogatorily.
	In a competitive world honor is given to one elevated, seen 
as apart and above; more highly capable, accomplished, 
authoritative, or sanctioned; even crowned.  Those who honor 
clamor to be honored, all the while functioning such that undue 
honor is not granted ahead of esteemed value.  And there is a 
tendency in human nature to pull down each other, citing the 
ambition of pride, the “and so, who are you?” attack.  In so 
doing one’s brother or sister is hindered in aspiration, and the 
attempt to better oneself is undertaken separately from, 
competitively with, one’s fellows.  Honor can create a chasm.
	Father has decreed that each creature strive for the 
perfection of manifestation of personality, and to do so He has 
expressed that you seek His will, for, in the comprehension and 
outworking of His divine purpose, you will attain that 
invitation.  To honor God, while He is due all adoration and 
respect and high esteem, your greatest acknowledgment of His 
almighty qualities is for you to attempt, however imperfectly, 
to manifest those divine qualities resident within you.  You are 
not usurping God’s status and position; you are not deifying 
yourself as a substitute for His holy power and personality.  
God is presented as a parent, and you are His children.
	There is always a child born among a family who exceeds the 
abilities and talents of the parent.  Each parent is proud of 
that child’s accomplishment and feels honored to have such 
excellence displayed through the family.  This is the sentiment 
of Father.  Your respect for the divine is not found in self 
deprecation as a counterbalance to the purity and sublimity of 
God.  It is your willingness to express creatively your talents 
that acknowledges the power of God, His kindness, for in His 
blessing you with such abilities, He has done what can be done 
as a divine parent.
	But these traits and qualities are to be cultivated by you, 
developed into greater manifestation, thus fulfilling the reason 
for such blessings to be bestowed.  This is the meaning of the 
parable of the ten talents.  Michael revealed the Father in his 
life on earth, and it was to his Father that he gave all honor.  
While mankind in general recognizes Jesus’ personality as one 
that reveals the nature of divinity, his intention was not for 
his own elevated recognition.  His intention was that each one 
of you go forth and do likewise, for this is your unique way to 
give God credit for who you are and for the reality of the 
divine support.
	In worship dispense with any feelings of unworthiness in 
your recognition of the stupendousness of God.  Worship is an 
embrace and a recognition of belonging.  It draws creature and 
Creator together.  It should never widen the gap of lowly 
creature and the high and holy God.
	The spirit gravity circuits throughout the universe 
constantly draw at the spirit nucleus of your being, pulling you 
into orbit around the divine center of all things.  When you 
worship, when you lift up God in recognition of His being, you 
are sliding into the inward pull of this spirit circuit, not 
passively, but contributorily.  While the circuits are ever 
present and always pulling upon you, your willing effort hastens 
the increased closeness that these circuits are, in effect, set 
up to accomplish.  You know from pushing another on a swing that 
one push sets the swing in motion and that the individual on the 
swing can continue motion through rhythmic gestures, but that 
the swinging is assisted by your timely push.  Out of synch you 
disrupt the flow.  At the precise moment, well placed, the swing 
is enhanced.  The circuits create the momentum such as the swing 
has; your worship enhances the circuits.  You are a vital 
contribution.  When you respond to your adoration of God by 
expressing your spiritual nature in your lives, you increase the 
drawing power of the spirit circuits.  The intensity of the draw 
is enhanced.
	While associated with physical gravity by the word 
“gravity”, it is not impersonal.  It is a field of energy within 
which personality resides.  It is very much connected to 
presence and being, unlike physical gravity which is connected 
to matter and energy.
	Every effort you make to transform your character along the 
lines of Michael’s manifestation to you in his earth life will 
elevate God in your soul and reveal the relationship to others.  
You will derive true self respect, for you will coordinate 
clearly in your mind the real relationship between the Creator 
of all and yourself, one small creature among a vast universe of 
personalities.
	I have completed my list of points I wish to express today.

	Evelyn:  I like what you said at the start about how we will 
be pleasantly surprised to find cooperation rather than 
competition to be the way of the morontia worlds.  I find it 
refreshing when I stumble upon it here.

*	Elyon:  It will be one of the first highly notable 
differences after you transition from this way of living on 
Urantia.  While greater challenges await you in the morontia 
phase of existence, the ability to accomplish growth in the face 
of these challenges is heightened because of this cooperative 
atmosphere.  A crowd moving in the same direction helps each one 
along.  A crowd where every individual runs in various 
directions contrary to one another does not aid the progress of 
anyone.  This is recognized and used to its fullness in the 
morontia realms.  Each one is helped and all move together 
beneficially.

	Ginny:  When we appear on the other side one of our greatest 
adjustments will be learning how to be cooperative and not 
competitive.  For us to seek this daily will be a pleasure.  For 
those who are totally competitive it will be a great adjustment.

*	Elyon:  It will.  A helpful factor in overcoming the 
tendency to compete will be the loss of the impulse towards 
self-preservation, for you will have experienced the death 
transition, and preservation will no longer be an issue.  
However, education will be required to shift the mind focus from 
self advancement at the expense of others to self advancement 
along with the upliftment and advancement of others.
	You have been told of your visits to each mansion world, 
even though you are evaluated as advanced in status to be 
domiciled on a particular mansion level, you are to become 
familiar with all seven levels.  One of the benefits derived 
from such world visitations is a comprehensive perspective of 
belonging, of association in cooperation, of mutual interest in 
soul advancement.  Coming from a world of rank and status at the 
expense of others’ loss and degradation, you will realize that 
status and rank in the morontia realms is only a transition 
stage, a step to higher levels, and that all beings undertake 
such transformation.  In the comprehension of Supremacy you will 
further realize the advancement of your fellow is upliftment of 
oneself.  This is the meaning behind the phrase that Jesus spoke 
of when he said that he who will save his life must lose it.  He 
who is to be first must make himself last.

	Ginny:  Does any competition at all exist on the mansion 
worlds?  Is there a healthy competition?

*	  Elyon:  Yes.  I have emphasized competition at the expense 
of another here.  In the realms I inhabit it is changed into 
teamwork, and the competition is the spirited encouragement of 
each individual by others to excel, to put yourself to the task 
to challenge your abilities.  Just as a team roots for the 
pitcher or the quarterback to do his best for the benefit of the 
team, you are given that competitive push.  What is missing is 
the negative detriment to any others.

	Ginny:  What a world!

*	Elyon:  Thank you for having me in your company today.  It 
is always a delight to fellowship with my friends.   
I take my leave.