[tmtranscripts] FW: LIGHTLINE TELECONFERENCE 10-19-06

[Tom Newbill]

SUBJECT: LIGHTLINE TELECONFRENCE 10-19-06

TEACHER: ELYON...LANTARNEK

T/R: RICK GILES

Elyon: Greetings to you all, this is Elyon. I enjoy this soulful fellowship
to have the opportunity to speak with you while you are at such different
locations. while in mind and in physical coordinates, each personality feels
or recognizes distance. We know in our soul that we converge at Paradise and
that through the passing of time, though we appear at times separated by
distance, by way of growth we are drawing ever closer together.

The power which drives growth is your faith and that faith derives its
energy from your willingness to perceive your experiences in the broad
context of your whole being not merely your family life or your hobbies, not
merely your physical material status or your education or your social
position but also your cosmic placement, your universe significance. The
combination of these ingredients organized by your faith gives you power and
that energy causes your growth.

But faith has a partner and that is grace. Your faith is your push, grace is
the pull, the power whereby God draws you into His arms up to that
consciousness of the Divine into worship. Every voluntary effort in faith is
supplemented and supported by a complementary extension of grace, hand
meeting hand in the upliftment of the soul. Faith can move mountains because
grace is the partner, the human becomes powerful because [it] is at One.

When you bow in humility before the Almighty your faith stands up as in
these [vows] and beholds the light of divine grace and in that inward
communion you receive the dual  power and find that when you stand in faith
to the challenges of your existence you are graciously accompanied by He who
rules and upholds all. Many mortals face the confrontation of a growing
faith, an incomplete faith, one which grapples with incompleteness of
consciousness of awareness, of insecurity because of a lack of certainties
derived from experience, but your faith is filled by grace.

Picture webbing, say one of your burlap fabrics. Every crisscross of thread
is a path of experience that your faith has undertaken. The holes in between
is where uncertainty is encountered. The grace is the filling medium, the
mud if you will, which coats the faith and makes you whole and multiplies
your strength into bonding. Ever and always go to God whether you feel
worthy or not, whether you feel connected or in need of reconciliation, for
your deficiencies are remedied by the outpouring of the mercy and love of
God.

I give thanks when I pause and reflect upon the majestic and stupendous
display of universe reality. From nothing came all things because of the
will of God. A being so capable, unfathomable to me in my own creative
expression, all the while intensely personal and focused on each of His
children. I sit in awe at the expansiveness of this awareness of one who can
rule a whole universe and can reside in your own heart. Faith and grace,
hand in hand. You can always trust where you fall short. He will take
[you]up and you can always be certain that when He calls you forth and you
are unsure, He will give the strength and the abilities ahead of your
required effort.

Some teach, let go and let God, others teach the importance of self
expression, that your creativity is what God seeks that you do. I say it is
a partnership not to be divided one away from the other, but both held in
oneness in embrace [with] your Creator. Jesus speaking to the human ego
cautioned that in service, not to let the right know what the left hand does
because the human mind can become overly absorbed in rewarding itself
towards acts. But in your divine center, you the left hand and God the right
hand work together to bring about ministry and here is where you count on
the presence of spirit and your own being.

In the acceptance of your human frailty you are elevated to perfection and
divinity. It is the paradox of the last becoming first. I have expressed my
thoughts. I wish to receive from you your comments, questions and feedback.
Thank you.

Q: Elyon thank you for your words and I was particularly impressed by your
analogy of burlap and webbing and our faith and the grace of the mud filling
in the gap because together that forms a kind of waterproofing and extended
may form a kind of disappointment proofing and our faith and the recognition
and acceptance of grace moves  us forward. Thank you.

Elyon: You are welcome and I would take the opportunity to transfer this
metaphorical image to the entire planet that all of humanity is like this
burlap web of faith and your celestial brothers and sisters are coming at
Michael's request to be that mud which fills in between what the human
lacks. The pattern applies to the planet as it does to your own personal
conditions.

Lantarnek: Greetings to you, this is Lantarnek, one of the Melchizedek
missionaries to your world. I commend you for your diligence at pursuing an
awareness of a universe scope that your personal progress as a spiritual
being is enlarged into a cosmic awareness of a universe citizen and that
your actions as a single individual are viewed in the context of planetary
purpose and while you are aware of your limitations in human expression you
have come to the realization of the corporate power in the collectivity of
souls and in your association of the many ministering spirits and the
angelic hosts. As Elyon spoke of faith with grace, we Melchizedeks count
upon your efforts seemingly insignificant but nonetheless of great
importance in actuality because every participant is a significant
contribution to the entire effort.

When you deepen your relationship to the divine presence you serve your
brothers and sisters and you uplift the world for the reality is not only
the hard rock, the blowing storms or those peaceful sunny afternoons, it is
also the establishment of an awareness of spirit presence in the mind
connected by way of soul to He who is overall. The more of you who become
adept at this development, this spiritual maturing, the greater will be the
ease of progress in the advancement of Urantia toward light and life.

You may not sit on a commission, you may not be a delegate to another
country 
or an ambassador, you may only serve as little ones whom Christ has blessed
but every expansion of mind and soul enlarges the reality of the presence of
spirit. I encourage you to keep up this work. You are of great help to our
efforts upon Urantia.

Q: Well Lantarnek, as I reflect on your encouragement to us as individuals
to make that connection with our divine selves, growing our souls and
affecting those around us, is the effect exponentially more when we do it
collectively in a group in close contact? What made me ponder this was
something I read today from a friend and let me digress and say my spiritual
path began in meditation and eastern philosophy and specifically
transcendental meditation and I have some friends that still stay very much
involved and he e-mailed me a message about a gathering they had within the
last month of thousands of meditators that gathered together in Fairfield,
Iowa in group meditation and they feel that they have had an effect on our
country and they referred comically that it was related in economic terms,
but that the stock market has gone up because of their collective
consciousness and lastly I think because of the consequence of people
gathering together to work together and I think it says in the Urantia book
that the effect is the number of people squared. How much more powerful is
it and important for us to try to work together as groups rather than just
as individuals?

Lantarnek: You have indicated a very important aspect of planetary progress.
>From your studies of the papers for Urantia you have developed an
understanding of the nature and progress of the soul long perceived on your
world but often misunderstood as to the significance and you know that the
growth of the soul makes for a larger substance of your being into which the
divine spirit becomes one. You have also had revealed to you the God of time
and space, the Supreme Being. It too has been a recognized reality on your
world. You speak of your eastern religions which have understood many
aspects of the nature of the Supreme.

This is the result of your efforts at collective consciousness. When an
individual undertakes an experience which harmonizes the physical, mental
and the spiritual elements of being there is always the result of soul
growth. When souls, many individuals harmonize one another's various
elements 
of being into a corporate community of effort you have Supreme growth. Light
and life is Supreme growth as a result of all the many souls growth. Yes you
will find greater power and effectiveness as you unite in purpose and focus
with spirit for the good of the world. Thank you for your question. [Thank
you.]

Elyon: I Elyon  am making myself known again. I will prod you for further
comments before I dismiss class. It is always the will of our Divine Parents
to fill your need to benefit you and to create well being and as you ask you
will receive.

Q: What fills my daytime ponderings is this cosmic perspective that
Lantarnek is speaking of, that while we are serving our brothers and sisters
on a daily basis, I would like to know that my individual efforts are
exponentially joined even to those I don't know about, that I can't see or I
can't come in contact with. Do I have to know the people or be around people
of like mind, because I'm not, in order to affect the Supreme? I feel out in
left field most of the time.

Elyon: To the human awareness, those afar appear to have little or no
bearing upon each other but this reality of supremacy makes it such that
your effort is exponentialized even in concert with another in another
superuniverse, not merely across the county or the planet or your local
system. The hub of this connection is the Supreme and the breadth and
influence of the Supreme is across the grand universe. The unseen friends
are always near you and it is with the spiritual eye that you see them and
are encouraged by them even when about you in the realm of the material you
perceive yourself to stand alone. This takes great faith. A faith as strong
as Michael's when He spent His last hours in great loneliness at His [depth]
while His apostles, His only friends were absent, He knew of and communed
with the mighty hosts of His universe. This you may do also and you will
know that your efforts are magnified by the assistance of your cosmic
brothers and sisters.

Q: Thank you so much for that reminder of our brother Michael's loneliness
and 
at the same time communion. That certainly makes our efforts seem united.
I'll start waving to you guys during the day.

Q: Along those same lines as I ponder my own choices, I have a choice to
either spend time pursuing my own spiritual growth in study, reflections of
that study, in stillness practice and in this wonderful way through the
spiritual eye of seeing the unseen friends and through faith working even
more with them and collectively trying to improve our planet. Obviously that
cannot help but produce good fruits but the question is if there is a choice
to do it in concert with others say a study group [or alone], but if you
have to choose one or the other is there a better way?

Elyon: The better way is the way that is of the greatest need at that moment
and I direct you back to Michael's life on your world. The time when He
would cross an entire lake only to be alone and the times when He would
march 
right into the center of a city to be surrounded by the throng. It depends
on the need of the moment, the need of your fellows or your own need. But I
also direct your focus to that dual purpose of personal growth and planetary
advancement. You grow of your own by way of your will and your receptivity
to the divine guidance but the planet grows by way of your inner
connectivity with one another, your sharing, your service ministry.

You may advance independently and progress personally spiritually and become
more prepared to function as an ambassador of spirit on Urantia, but until
you are active in, among and with your fellows, this ability will be merely
potential. I therefore ask you to be discerning to know when the hour has
come, to know when you must go to the hills to be with your Father and when
you must ride into town on the back of a donkey.

Q: I will prepare myself and begin to look for donkeys. Thank you my
Father/brother of great wisdom.

Elyon: I express my gratitude for your attention. I honor your sincere
hearts and I respect  the diligence of your minds in the pursuit of truth.
It is the reality of the goodness of your soul that expresses the beauty of
God through you and I will let us depart with one final thought, to look to
the resident Lord, to He within who knows you and is you. It is only your
giving and becoming that completes the union. In this state all things are
possible. Thank you, farewell.




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