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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">North Idaho Teaching
Mission Group</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">Topics: The Shape of
Spirit, The Rock of the
Kingdom</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">Teachers: Elyon, Michael</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">October 20, 2002</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon
(Jonathan TR):  Greetings to each
of you.  This is your pal Elyon.  It brings
me delight to be assembled in this
convocation of responsive souls.  It
engenders great hope for the destiny of this
world to witness such aspiration and to
perceive your aspirations transform into
application.  The art of spiritual living is
this very transformation of aspiration into
application.  I will speak on the shape of
spirit, the form of the formless.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    When
finite beings attempt a description
of God it soon becomes obvious that no
amount of sentence structure, no amount of
precise terms, can fully describe spirit
nature.  So, new terms are constructed which
stretch beyond the time and space frameworks
in which all your typical living experiences
take place.  So words such as “omnipresence”
and “omniscience”, “absolute”, and the like
come into being, each one attempting to
grasp a state of being that is not
fathomable to the human mind other than
through the avenue of faith, for each term
in itself springs from a finite notion.  For
instance, “presence” typically defines the
location of a being; a being is present at
one place, not another.  “Omnipresence”
attempts to expand the sense of location to
everywhere and so is breaking the
constraints of finiteness, all the while
relying upon finite sensibility for
comprehension.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    While
God is omnipresent you are also
taught He dwells within.  You have been
given the term “Father Fragment”.  You
understand the phrase “spark of divinity”,
and these terms “fragment” and “spark” use
the spacial limitations of size.  So, that
still, small voice that dwells within hales
from the omnipresence of an absolute God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    To
some it is repulsive to even attempt
a description of deity, for it all falls
short.  To others it is frustrating to not
arrive at a clear description of who God is
in character and attributes and qualities.
I express to you today that the Father of
all has no desire to be defined and yet is
all encompassingly passionate towards a
profound and knowing contact with His
creatures.  Being aware of the limitations
of our finite natures, our Father has
undertaken the stupendous adventure of
Supremacy, of finite growth, of evolution.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Jesus
said, “Follow me”, while upon this
world he dedicated the greater part of his
adult life to revealing the Father.
However, along with this undertaking,
challenging as it was, he also devoted his
time to bringing the creature to the
Creator.  You each are, in your own rights,
shapers of spirit just as Michael was when
he was in the shape and form of Jesus.  He
said when he was about to leave this world
that, “Where I go you cannot go”.  But he
will send his Comforter to be with you.  Why
would he say that he goes where you cannot
go when he also said that he goes to prepare
a place for you?  It is because he is a
creator personality and we are creatures.
However, each one throughout Nebadon is
indwelt by his comforting presence of the
Spirit of Truth.  It is through the bestowal
of this spirit that you have life more
abundantly.  You may not have more life, but
it will be abundant in spirit presence and
spirit nurture.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Although
it is noble for the human mind
to reach for an increasingly accurate
description of deity, for it is a beneficial
legacy for all the creatures to follow in
the centuries that roll by to have platforms
from which they may establish and stage
their understanding of God, this is not the
shaping of spirit I speak of today.  I speak
of the shaping of spirit as spirit indwells
and fuses and moves through you.  We may
hunger for a definition of God; God hungers
for the shape of finite and does so satisfy
this desire of the divine through you, each
one.  True, from the creature perspective we
each seek to conform more fully to those
qualities of divinity that we understand to
be the Father’s will.  This is acceptable in
the sight of God.  And we have another task,
and that is to provide the arena wherein the
Father may take shape within the finite
world.  That is why you are indwelt by the
Father, by Michael, and by Mother Spirit;
not only to bring you into their presence
but for you to bring their presence into
your world.  While we each have standards
and ideals we reach for, aspire toward, we
have also the freedom of expression that
provides the variety of experience sought
for as the Absolute infuses itself into the
limitations of the finite.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    You
might say we are all like carnival
balloons.  We each are filled with spirit,
but we can be tied into many shapes, twisted
and altered to reveal a different pattern.
Yes, we may wish to fully fathom the content
of the air that fills our balloons, but
along with that is the privilege of
providing the shape for that air to be
manifest.  What is stillness but the filling
of the balloons, creating the opportunity
for spiritual pressure to inflate you that
you may take shape and that you may give
shape to spirit within.  You are in the same
position as Jesus was so many centuries ago.
You have a duty to your own well-being to
more deeply comprehend the nature of God and
to establish a strong fellowship with Him.
But you also have the responsibility of
revealing to your fellows precisely what you
have discovered in your inner life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Due
to the fact of the intangible
qualities of spirit, it is each one’s
responsibility to provide the shape, just as
a pitcher, a glass, or even a hose provides
form to water.  This is the divine
partnership.  And it is the Father’s will.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    I
pause now and remain in your presence.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Mark: 
I pray to be awakened to the need
to ask to be that receptacle that the spirit
of the Father may fill us to overflowing,
that we may drip our overflowing essence of
the Father as we go through our daily
activities, that we be so full of the
Father’s love that we can’t help but splash
it on others as we make our way through this
life.  Thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon: 
You are welcome, and this that
you express of the cup that runneth over is
indeed the desire of Father.  How could it
run over if it were not full and there were
no cup?  There would be no brim over which
it may flow.  There is where your
willingness, your asking, enters in.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Mary: 
You commented that God hasn’t
much interest in being defined but has
intense interest in being known.  How do you
know something but by interacting with it?
We can get to know God by interacting with
Him, taking into account that He is present,
He is everything we believe Him to be.  By
acting out our faith, setting it in motion
beyond just believing we will discover more
than just by pondering.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes, this is true.  As example,
imagine two glasses on a table filled with a
liquid, both clear.  A simple description
that ended there would reveal no
differences.  Yet, as you have said,
interacting with each glass of liquid brings
deeper understanding, not simply through an
observation, but through experience.  If you
touched a match to both and one took to
flame, and the other put the match out;
clearly there are two different items in
your view.  The more you interact, the
deeper your understanding.  As your
understanding expands, the more intimate
your interaction.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Michael: 
My beloved, I extend myself to
be acknowledged by you through this form of
audible reception.  I am Michael.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Peter
has been credited with being the
one referred to when I said that upon this
rock I will build my kingdom.  Peter has
pleased me greatly with his effort at
building the kingdom of Christendom.  Yet
there is another element to this phrase that
is often overlooked.  I today speak to you
in support of Elyon’s lesson.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    When
I completed my mission here on
Urantia, you understand how I ended my
career of vicegerency as a Creator Son and
transitioned into my current standing as
Master and Sovereign.  Until I finished this
bestowal I was preparing the kingdom.  Now
the preparations are over, and the kingdom
is being built, built with the materials of
my previous bestowals, built with the
infusion of the creative powers of my
consort Nebadonia.  This rock, Urantia,
became the starting point for the
construction.  What was once ages of
preparation is now a vast effort and drive
toward completion.  Upon this rock of
Urantia I build my kingdom.  You will not
see temples.  You will not see road signs
saying, “Two miles ahead is the kingdom”.
So, where am I building this kingdom on this
rock?  I trust you know the answer.  The
kingdom is within you, my children.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    There
is much work to be done, great
adventures ahead.  It has been ordained from
the Isle of Paradise that all is well in
Nebadon, that our efforts are proceeding
according to the Father’s will.  You may
doubt; you may be unassured at times, but
the kingdom is being built, and the
foundation is solid.  I give you my
dedication as one who has completed my
training.  In fullness and power with love I
am with you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    Mark: 
Likewise, Michael, we seek your
presence and love in our circle and our
lives that we may be closer to you, that we
may be open vessels through which your love
may pour to those around us.  We seek this
above all else.  Thank you for your gifts.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">*   Elyon: 
This is Elyon.  I close our
meeting today and encourage you to give
shape to spirit, to revive form to the
formless, to let your light so shine to
allow your radiance to be received by
others.  I leave you with one small image to
ponder.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">    I
have today used air and water to mark
the sense of the formless and  shapeless,
intangible qualities of spirit to the
creature mind.  We haven’t even begun to
address the qualities of light and having it
take shape.  Perhaps this week you can look
for ways in which you shape light.
Farewell.</span></font></div>
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