[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 08/08/04

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Stillness, Company, Devotion, Belonging
Teachers: Malvantra, Elyon, Jessona

August 8, 2004

*	Malvantra (Jonathan TR):  Greetings, this is Malvantra.  I 
welcome you again into this melchizedek classroom.
	I wish merely to encourage you to spend time this coming 
week refreshing the soul through stillness and energizing 
yourselves by seeking company that is uplifting.  Always are we 
encouraging of your engagement in service, to be alert to where 
you may be of spirit benefit to another.  There are times, 
however, when you are the one in need.  It is in these intervals 
when you benefit others through retreat, through solitude, 
through taking in energy divine through worship with spirit.
	Others are with me today, and I step back.

*	Elyon:   Hello, friends, this is Elyon.
	Today I wish to give you reassurance of our acceptance of 
your dedication and application to this outreach program.  It is 
your devotion that we recognize and value.  It is your devotion 
that qualifies you as a member in this mission.  It is your 
devotion that fuels your cycles of learning.
	Devotion carries with it the quality of steadfastness, the 
ability to remain firm, unfaltering, when buffeted about by 
conflict, by confusion.  This ability brings upon you the 
recognition of one able to receive assignment and to pursue the 
goal regardless of circumstances and to pursue with success in 
view and to pursue even if failure is the outcome of a given 
project.  Devotion stretches beyond success and failure, for 
while it contains the quality of steadfastness.  It also 
discerns that which is temporal and that which is eternal and is 
willing to reorganize self to, to reorient self to, improve 
ability; to refine technique that goals of everlasting value may 
be reached even while approaches in the temporal realm may 
change.
	Devotion to God is steadfast.  Devotion to cause will 
always adjust that the high goal may be realized through the 
fluctuations of time and position.
	These are my comments this morning.  Thank you.

*	Jessona:   I am here also, this is Jessona.
	As one who works closely with associates of my own order 
and also with quite an array of differing individuals, I am 
keenly aware of not only the camaraderie to be found in 
association with others, but I recognize as well the 
difficulties of personality interaction, and I know also the 
sense of isolation felt by the human beings who inhabit this 
world.  Some recognize the isolation and pursue spirit contact.  
Others only feel the sense and as yet have not understood that 
this feeling is a sense of separation from divine presence, and 
then pursue fulfillment in meaningless directions.  It is my 
desire to instill in you the unceasing sense of belonging, 
foster this sensitivity in quiet time, grasping the significance 
of the presence of Father and reflecting upon the proximity of 
many angels, of many teachers, of many midwayers.
	You relish the fellowship of one another, your human 
friends.  Cultivate likewise the awareness of the high beings 
around you.  Expect not to discern any physical signal, for you 
are in a dimension different, but in mind and in soul you are 
closer to your celestial associates.  It is here that you sense 
presence, and through this kinship you foster your ability to 
work alone, to work when the world appears spiritless.

	Ginny:  There are people  who are very much afraid of 
spirits.  Is there a way to encourage people who feel isolated?

*	Jessona:  It is unfortunate that due to the Caligastia 
betrayal of Michael’s plan for Urantia that the human race has 
come to believe in spirit beings with evil intentions.  This 
having been born from the real events of political conflict on 
this world in the planetary administration has been distorted by 
your legends into grotesque forms of malevolence, of willful 
terror, of wanton desire to destroy the human soul.  This is an 
exaggeration of this unfortunate episode of millennia past.
	Today it is you and your spirit friends who are the only 
reflection of the trust that is available through association 
with benevolent spirit beings.  Another will slowly release the 
grip of historic legend of evil spirit only through perceiving 
your trust.  The aura of your presence will dispel the fear, not 
unlike how Jesus could calm the restless soul who came to him 
for counsel.
	One day Urantia will understand in context the meaning of 
the disruption of the normal governance of this planet.  The 
power of God will be fully understood to prevail over all 
insignificant, small, skirmishes throughout the universe.  
Encourage another to seek the Father, to seek the  Father for 
divine ... request for divine protection, and to do so believing 
that God is most powerful, that God truly loves His children and 
will let no child be exposed to danger.  Secondly, begin the 
slow process of altering the mental construct that evil forces 
are spending time seeking to destroy the human soul to undermine 
spirit progress within.
	I hope this helps.

	Ginny:  Yes, thank you.

*	Elyon:  This is Elyon, and I will draw a close by saying 
Michael loves you and loves me; Mother Spirit loves you and 
loves me.  I love you; I recognize your love for me.  This is 
beauty of the spirit.  Farewell.