[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 04/15/07

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Learning about Your World, Growth and 
States of Being, Vine and Branches, 
Teachers: Light, Elyon, Michael

April 15, 2007

*	Light (Kathy TR):  I appreciate the 
acknowledgment of my achievement as I am 
attempting to learn about your world.  I am in 
changing capacity always, increasing my ability to 
make connections with the other personalities in 
the Monjoronson mission.  It is my pleasure to 
make this attempt to speak with you today.

*	Elyon (Jonathan):  I greet you, this is 
Elyon.  I will speak some regarding growth and 
states of being.
	You have expressed your fervor toward the 
advancement of your souls, the deeper in-mergence 
into the presence of the divine spirit and the 
increased sensitivity to that connection 
regardless of your activities.  Urantia, the world 
upon which you live, is a dimension of its own, 
you have been taught, that of evolutionary worlds.  
Those who are domiciled on the worlds of Mansonia 
function in a dimension much different than your 
Earthly estate.  You might liken it to your 
phonograph.  Impressed into that disk is a song, 
but it is impressed based upon the forecasted rpm 
of that phonograph.  You are in a sense impressed 
with an rpm that is of Earthly life.  So, if you 
were to shift to a different speed, your song 
would not sound the same.
	In longing to attain a state of being 
greater than your current Earthly standing, you 
are doing well in fostering the aspiration which 
leads to growth.  This is an undertaking where you 
are at the moment impressing your song into a new 
dimension.  But much of that is an investment in 
your future lives.  In order to verify that 
accomplishment you are often in the position of 
needing to practice patience, for it will require 
a dimensional transition to experience that 
attainment.  However you are fully capable of 
revealing yourself in your human form as a spirit 
being and vibrating at an intensity by which 
others will recognize spirit.
	We have, in years past, discussed the 
companionship of worship and service; worship 
being the penetration into the arms of the Father, 
the submergence of self into the Great One, and 
service the expression of the soul of arms open to 
help all you come in contact with.  The two 
functions are really the same.  It is merely the 
changing of your vibrational intunement, but it is 
still the same energy expressed.  This is why 
Jesus said, “Whatsoever you do to the least among 
you, you do so for me, even for Him who has sent 
me.”
	In your growth, your unfoldment into 
morontia standing, you will be in a sense 
impressing many records with songs of various 
vibrational dimensions, and they will become your 
catalog.  As you enter into one state appropriate 
to such an album, you will be able to then 
experience that music at that speed.  We today are 
crossing a divide, and I at my dimensional 
frequency must transmute into your realm by way of 
a human contact, and you are the only means I have 
of broadcasting my personality into your realm.  
Each one of you is one of various speakers through 
which I can express, and this is a small 
expression that is mirroring the same 
expressiveness of God.  Take the accomplishments 
of your growth and put them on your Earthly 
phonograph at the speed appropriate to expression 
that is recognizable and approachable by your 
fellows.
	What is not attained is the goal of your 
spiritual growth, and that which is not attained 
is not functional in your present state.  So you 
search and long and seek realization, but once 
attained you have now a valuable asset, and that 
asset, that talent, is to be multiplied.  It is no 
longer to be reached up for; it is to be given out 
as.  And that as is your state of being.  
Aspiration leads the soul Godward, but expression 
does lead God soul-ward, and that is even through 
you to another who is in need, who does hunger for 
the answer that is truth.
	I will continue a bit more and add to the 
subject a transitional function.
	In your current era you have a rapidly 
changing technological environment, and the media 
upon which you hear music changes almost yearly.  
That has created an opportunity for some to become 
translators, to convert from one form to the newer 
form.  The song in itself is unchanged; the 
expression, the medium through which it is heard, 
has, and this is the case with eternal truth and 
its revelation.  So you are engaged with us in 
this mission in the development of that ability to 
convert the media that the truth can be re-heard 
in its original form albeit in a different manner.
	Our teaching staff has often encouraged you 
to be brave in the realm of choice and intention.  
We have done so because it will become even more 
necessary for you to adjust yourselves that you 
may function with the administration of this 
planet and do so remaining contactable by your 
fellows, remaining relevantly engaged, not aloof, 
set apart upon a hill, withdrawn into the temple 
of spirit.  You can do this in stillness, but if 
we are to bridge the silent gap between the Earth 
activities of human beings and the morontia 
movements of spirit we need you as that bridge.
	Jesus often drew his apostles apart from the 
crowds that they may regain spiritual strength in 
the refreshment of worship and brotherly 
communion.  But far more often were they sent 
forth to commingle with the many, and yes there 
were triumphant times wherein they felt they were 
doing the Father’s work and uplifting the souls 
they came in contact with.  But there were many 
times when each one felt inadequate, discovered 
their deficiencies in revealing the spiritual 
truth they had come into contact.  This experience 
is of premium value, for one can be taught, as I 
express to you today, and acquire perspective and 
attempt to apply that understanding in life and 
witness results.  This is an acquired attainment, 
but when you express yourselves with what you have 
attained already and experience failure, or 
insufficient results that you sought for, you then 
are learning directly from your own being, and 
this discovery gives a far greater strength.  It 
is benefited by comparison to the teachings of 
sages, of those who are wise, for it allows you to 
adjust in that comparison.  But it also, in its 
own right, anchors you in the assurance of an 
attainment that you truly possess and not merely 
put on.
	In the far stretches of time upon the Isle 
of Paradise you will see a legacy that was your 
growth.  That journey will be punctuated by states 
of being, each one remarkable at its own level.  
Each one without the other does not make the 
continuum that is, or will be, your completed 
growth.  Each state has associative contact with a 
higher and unattained state and a lower and 
previously traversed state.  That point is your 
real work, your true ministry.  By fully 
appreciating and fully engaging in your current 
dimensional framework you are qualifying yourself 
for the next level of activity.  Yes, it is good 
to prepare for the next and higher function, to 
investigate and discover what it is that makes 
that level practical and attainable.  But the true 
preparation for the lift into that next function 
is solid, stable, directed living in your current 
state.
	A swimmer will jump into the air to make a 
dive, but that lift is temporary as he descends 
onto the edge of the diving board and depresses it 
a little further down only to be given the extra 
boost of that spring up again to greater heights 
before taking the plunge.  This is how one grows.  
This is how one enters into worship and into 
service.
	Thank you for receiving my comments.  It is 
ever a pleasure to engage with you, to share with 
my Earthly kinfolk.

	Paul: My soul jumps for joy when I hear the 
word ascension.  Could you give a little more 
information on the ascension process?

*	Elyon:  The ascension inspires you because 
it is the inherent will of God for your 
personality.  In the traversal of the matrix of 
potential throughout the universe that becomes 
your ascension path you encounter waystations.  I 
have likened this ascension to traveling up a 
stairway.  On each step is that plateau of 
relative attainment and ease of travel.  Soon 
there is the rise to the next step, and there 
comes with it the difficulty of lifting oneself 
higher.  It often appears insurmountable the 
height to attain, but once you are over that edge 
and on the next level there is the joy of being at 
that state.  So ascension will not be a smooth 
continual upliftment.  It will unfold in steps and 
will appear stagnant, though in reality it is a 
stage of maturation, not stagnation.  Being fully 
footed at one step assures your success of the 
attainment of the next.
	But this analogy is a limitation to the true 
potentials of ascension, for I might point out 
that the step you stand on is like you standing 
before a great amphitheater or a cluster of 
pyramids, the path of ascension is as wide as it 
is high because the potentials in store for any 
human being are virtually infinite.  Jesus spoke 
of the “narrow way”; he did so in reference to 
your singular pursuit.  All personalities created 
by the Father of all personalities have to choose 
the course of their unfoldment.  Though one may 
wonder that with such an expanse, such a landscape 
through which to travel, that one would lose their 
way.  Hold fast in faith to the truth that the 
spirit always will lead you for your benefit and 
in full knowledge of your selfhood configuration.  
I would clarify what that configuration is by 
alluding to methods of travel, as some could 
travel well across land, others more expediently 
through water, and others can fly through the air.  
You have a specific keying that makes you more 
growth efficient in certain avenues, and spirit 
will lead you that way.  That is part of that 
narrow path.

	Paul:  Thank you very much.  It is a longer 
path.  At the same time when I think it’s stagnant 
I look at it in a different way and it really 
brings my perception around to the infinite ways 
of looking at things.

*	Elyon:  You are welcome, and I would 
continue a bit more with the notion of the 
stairway.
	When in that sense of stagnation, as you are 
on the plateau of a step, you may address that 
feeling by observing what on that level is still 
in need of experiencing or accomplishing or 
attaining to make you better capable of rising to 
the next.  That will help to set aside the 
frustration in the sense of lack of movement as 
you further refine your current state.  But do 
know that you may at any time when ready take the 
next step, that as you climb stairs, you do not 
need to place your foot at every square inch of 
every step to make it to the next.  This will 
prevent the unfortunate stagnation of never 
wanting to leave one level to attain the next.

*	Michael:  This is Michael, greetings to you, 
my beloved.  May I remind you of my parable of the 
vine and the branches and cause note that the 
fruit is borne at the tips and that the 
nourishment is drawn from the trunk.  Your teacher 
Elyon often reminds you of the value of stillness, 
for this is where you do draw your nourishment.  
As you seek to enter into the heavenly kingdom in 
fullness and glory, the true bearing of fruit is 
at the extremities, that is, right where you are 
today.  Fruit is nourishment for another while at 
the same time it is the avenue for the replication 
of truth, the revelation of God, the promulgation 
of spiritual realities.  My universe is a vineyard 
and there are great varieties of fruit-bearing 
souls in this universe.  I say that when I taste 
of your fruit it is good, and when I taste of 
another’s fruit, though different, it is also 
good.  I will in-fill you with spiritual 
nourishment that you will bear fruit.
	I give you my love.  I share with you in 
peace.

	Paul:  Would you talk about the upheaval 
that is coming to Urantia?

*	Michael:  I have a few comments that I 
perceive of worth to you.  First I will return to 
the vineyard and remind you that there is the 
cycle of required pruning that greater fruit be 
borne and assure you that what is anticipated as 
upheaval is merely a pruning and is of great 
benefit and not a catastrophe, and that there is a 
magnificent corps of workers to do the pruning, 
and that the field foreman, Monjoronson, is fully 
capable of managing the crew for optimal results.  
Your contribution to the cycle is to foster the 
understanding in your fellows of the benefit of 
these changes, to alleviate the fear and the 
uncertainty that causes the anxiety that there 
will be catastrophe.  No one of my children is 
ever left unattended.  It is only in the lack of 
that understanding and the following sense of no 
trust that dread and fear result.  But the soul of 
every one is in good keeping, and that whether on 
Earth or in the many mansions you are in good 
keeping, that your personality is safeguarded, and 
that only the external environs shift, and that 
sometimes these shifts are for the benefit of the 
entire planet.
	While we are intent upon good pruning there 
are times when a branch, a vine, will die on its 
own even while we are looking to prepare it to 
bear fruit.  So, the shape will alter not by our 
own choosing but by the unfoldment, the evolution, 
of the vineyard as a whole.  So, I caution any 
about the temptation to define, describe, or 
enumerate what exact alterations will occur.  The 
general sensitivity as the workers of the field 
enter the vineyard to prune with an intention for 
optimal yield will be coincident with the 
unexpected encounters of the flux of life.
	I hope this has provided you with 
sustenance.

	Paul:  Thank you.  We’re thankful to have 
you here with your divine plan.  That reassures 
me.

	Question:  Could you enumerate why the vine 
dies on its own?

*	Michael:  While my parable of the vine and 
branches serves the purpose in illustrating the 
intimate connection between our heavenly Father, 
myself, and my children, it does not address the 
reality of free will.  So, a vine may be severed 
in the refusal to receive the nourishment, and 
that will alter the shape of the tree.  There are 
other factors that are from an external bearing 
such as disease, and Urantia encountered such an 
infection in the rebellion of your planetary 
prince.  But such occurrences as regards the soul, 
while disruptive of the various branches, will 
never harm you in an eternal sense.  It may alter 
your participation in the current growth in the 
vineyard, but you will be transplanted, and you 
will set new roots if you have chosen in your 
heart to be a part, to be growing in this universe 
family.  I and my Father will that no one 
perishes, but we honor the freedom of your choice 
in selecting eternal life.  That is a gift to me 
beyond measure of greater wonder than to have you 
all automatically grow.  It is this interface 
between the vinemaster and the vineyard that is 
itself spectacular in its own beauty and is 
inspiring to even myself.

	Questioner:  Thank you, father.

*	Michael:  Thank you, my children.  Let us 
now leave this chamber of communion and enter into 
the fields, bear fruit, and be a blessing to all 
in need.  I give you my love.

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